1987 Quarter

Hello all, I had a question about a quarter that I found. It is a
1987P U.S. Quarter and it has no dentils. Is this worthy anything?
It looks like dentils were never created on this coin, I found it in
some spare change I had. It appears to have been in general
circulation, does a quarter like this have any value with the dentils
missing?

Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

Sincerely,
Johnny

"Johnny" wrote in message
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Hello all, I had a question about a quarter that I found. It is a
1987P U.S. Quarter and it has no dentils. Is this worthy anything?
It looks like dentils were never created on this coin, I found it in
some spare change I had. It appears to have been in general
circulation, does a quarter like this have any value with the dentils
missing?

Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

Sincerely,
Johnny

Dentils???
Perhaps you mean reeding? (& a lack thereof)

But George Washington did have dentures.

There are errors of this type, although your coin could just be the result
of a lot of motion in slot machines. Rolling down all of those slots can
evenly wear off the reeding, leaving the rim looking intact:

http://conecaonline.org/content/OhNo0027.htm


"Johnny" wrote in message
m...
Hello all, I had a question about a quarter that I found. It is a
1987P U.S. Quarter and it has no dentils. Is this worthy anything?
It looks like dentils were never created on this coin, I found it in
some spare change I had. It appears to have been in general
circulation, does a quarter like this have any value with the dentils
missing?

Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

Sincerely,
Johnny

Brian wrote:

There are errors of this type, although your coin could just be the result
of a lot of motion in slot machines. Rolling down all of those slots can
evenly wear off the reeding, leaving the rim looking intact:

http://conecaonline.org/content/OhNo0027.htm

Slot machines are NOTORIOUSLY hard on coins. By design, the machines
drive the coins into the tray at the bottom as hard as they can in order
to make as much noise as possible. This quickly pounds out any reeding
on their edges and gives the rest of the coins' surfaces a bumpy,
burnished look. I see 'slot machined' coins all the time that are worn
nearly to a level of unrecognizability, even though they are less than
10 years old.

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On 22-Sep-2004, "Edwin Johnston" wrote:

Dentils???
Perhaps you mean reeding? (& a lack thereof)

But George Washington did have dentures.

Perhaps he was decrying the lack of denticles on quarters, although this sad
state has existed for 88 years now, and has spread to the rest of our coins
as well.

"Edwin Johnston" wrote in news:415176fa$0$444
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"Johnny" wrote in message
m...
Hello all, I had a question about a quarter that I found. It is a
1987P U.S. Quarter and it has no dentils. Is this worthy anything?
It looks like dentils were never created on this coin, I found it in
some spare change I had. It appears to have been in general
circulation, does a quarter like this have any value with the dentils
missing?

Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

Sincerely,
Johnny

Dentils???
Perhaps you mean reeding? (& a lack thereof)

But George Washington did have dentures.



Wooden dentils?

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Joecoin

Copper is as copper does.

Mark wrote in
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:14:46 -0500, "Michael G. Koerner"
wrote:

Brian wrote:

There are errors of this type, although your coin could just be the
result of a lot of motion in slot machines. Rolling down all of
those slots can evenly wear off the reeding, leaving the rim looking
intact:

http://conecaonline.org/content/OhNo0027.htm

Slot machines are NOTORIOUSLY hard on coins. By design, the machines
drive the coins into the tray at the bottom as hard as they can in
order to make as much noise as possible. This quickly pounds out any
reeding on their edges and gives the rest of the coins' surfaces a
bumpy, burnished look. I see 'slot machined' coins all the time that
are worn nearly to a level of unrecognizability, even though they are
less than 10 years old.

I wonder how many passes through it takes to completely smooth the
edges ?


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Copper is as copper does.