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    Quarter error

    Hey everyone I have got a question. Is there or has there ever been an error quarter with no Reeds on the edges? Forgive my lack of knowledge.
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    The collar would not come into play. The collar contains the reeding. A planchet or coin blank is fed within the striking chamber, surrounded by the collar. The planchet is a tad smaller than the collar size. When the anvil die squeezes the planchet between the dies, metal expands towards the collar and reeding normally fills it in, leaving a finished coin.

    The coin have could been struck out of collar, but it would probably be off center or broadstruck.
    Normally these have some reeding.

    Another issue may be the use of a wrong planchet size,such as a nickel, dime or similar off metal or foreign planchet. Being too small, not enough metal is there to make it to the reeding.

    The possibility does exist that some one may have removed the reeding outside the mint, either to remove silver content or just to let people scratch their head. Bob likes to call these garage coins.

    Good thing to do is inspect the coin all the way around the coin, seeing if any design elements are missing, along with a full rim

    Weigh the coin down to the hundredths of a gram,, say x.xx g . Scales can be had off amazon for less than 20 bucks, shipped.
    Gary Kozera
    Website: https://MintErrors.org

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      I will weight it first and post the results and a photo of said coin. I do have another one same year but it looks like it was rubbed off cause it does have some reeding on it. Thank you for the info!! I will try to get it posted today

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