2007 D Washington State Quarter

[vampiressd13]

Hello, please let me know if I did anything wrong. This is my first time posting pictures of coins. I found this in my change. The fin on the side of the fish is not complete. When looking at the mouth, it has a look that suggests there is a long, spear-like tooth. There are completely blank spots on the wording "The Evergreen State." The tree lines and mountains are missing parts of the structure. I hope these are clear enough to have an opinion on the type of error this is under.
Kathie
Vampiressd13

[biedercoiin]

The blank area north of the date looks like it was struck through grease or some such. As for the “tooth”, my best guess from the photo mag would be a die chip, just in an odd place. In addition to the detailed areas, it helps if you can post pictures of the whole coin, obverse and reverse.

[MintErrors]

Hello, please let me know if I did anything wrong. This is my first time posting pictures of coins. I found this in my change. The fin on the side of the fish is not complete. When looking at the mouth, it has a look that suggests there is a long, spear-like tooth. There are completely blank spots on the wording "The Evergreen State." The tree lines and mountains are missing parts of the structure. I hope these are clear enough to have an opinion on the type of error this is under.
Kathie
Vampiressd13

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You did just fine posting your coin.

I agree, the area surrounding the phrase "The evergreen state" may be struck through grease related. From 2002 and before this was seen quite a lot. In my opinion, of all the coins after 2002 with errors, the quarter seems to have more, followed by the cent.

As for Washington's mouth, if the area you are talking about is:

If raised on the coin it could be a die chip, die gouge or the beginning of a die crack. Https://error-ref.com should have descriptions/photos of each under the "completed entries" section of the web site.

If sunk into the coin it could be just another hit on the coin, commonly known as a bag mark. To me, it does not look like a clash.

Good photos. I do agree on the full obverse and reverse photos. It can help decipher what is going on with the coin.

Gotta run.

Happy Hunting.

[vampiressd13]

#MintErrors
I have been practicing taking photos with my iPhone, and I am including the full obverse and reverse photos. I hope that these will be sufficient. The coin is smooth. I wanted to bring attention to the mouth of the fish. It looks as if there is a spear tooth inside the top of the mouth. Plus, the fin that is on his inside body is not completely formed. I used the microscope photos in the first post.I also have a few different coins I will be posting now that I am getting better at the cellphone photos.
Thanks for all the replies, I find them very helpful

[MintErrors]

@vampiressd13

I use a android tablet to zoom in close to see the photos. Unfortunately, I cannot tell whether the fish tooth youcare talking about is raised or sunk into the coin. Since you have the coin in hand, is that extra tooth raised on the coin ? If so, it might be a die chip. It would not be unique, actually the chip would be common, and depending when it formed on the working die, several hundreds to thousands or more could have been produced from that working die. The working dies typicallyvstrike close to 325,000 quarters before being retired. I have seen higher numbers as well so it really depends on maintenance, less stress on the dies and how the planchets were softened before the strike. All that might affect the longevity of the working die.

If that is truly some struck through grease, that grease probably affected other parts of the coin either with grease or a slightly lighter strike than normal.

The scratches are concerning. If most are sunk into the coin, it might be post mint damage, something done to the coin after it left the mint. It would significantly reduce the grade and if sent in to a third party grading service it would probably receive a "details" grade, probably with some sort of damage noted.

With circulated coins, it gets a bit tougher to distinguish what could have happened in the mint and what happened outside the mint, unless it is a classic error. All we get is a split second view of a photo and sometimes its just not enough to tell what happened to it.

This looks like a well circulated coin with the possibility of some devices that were struck through grease along with some post mint damage in the way of scratches of some sort.