I was just wondering what stupid questions I would have to answer today about boring, common coins, and behold, you have something that is actually interesting, and you even found a clever way to capture it in one photo. And I was excited thinking you might have an error worth certifying. But I'm also aware you posted this question in the Collector's Universe forums and there was considerable exchange there between you and the others. From the photos you showed including the edge, you seem to have a counterfeit, someone split a quarter and rotated the reverse and reattached it; or combined two quarters. You mentioned listing it on eBay. This would be our last recommendation. Because either you have something which is real and will get underbid, or it's not and you risk getting in trouble with eBay or the buyer. If it had promise we'd say send it to NGC with an error designation. But what you seem to have is a magicians prop or something, worth maybe $5 give or take. I wish we'd been able to answer you first; but then again our advice is often not taken.
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I promise you it is not a magician coin. I have taken it to every coin shop around my area and they have verified that it is a real coin.
I don’t know anything about coins or what you’re supposed to do and what you’re not supposed to do, but I did take it to all the coin chops and they all told me I need to send it in to get it graded that they’ve never seen anything like it before, but it definitely is a real coin.
Some of the people in the coin form kind of pissed me off with some of their comments so when they wanted to see the edge of the quarter I sent in a picture of a regular quarter just a normal quarters edge so I don’t that one didn’t have an error or anything so I doubt that one’s a magician point either I didn’t even send in the side of the quarter in question.
I figured that I would get the same answer as everybody else thinks that it’s not a real quarter but I unless all these coin shops around here I don’t know what they’re talking about then I guess my best bet is just send it in. Thank you for your time though.
MY REPLY: When you say you promise it's not a magician's coin... I have a dozen diplomas on my wall from grading and authentication courses, and I would be shooting from the hip if I made such a claim. With all due respect, you really can't tell without specialized training. You can get an NGC membership at the lowest level--I just renewed mine for $39--and send it in for error certification. All this will set you back close to $100 with shipping. My guess is you won't get your money back. If it's a genuine error, and I hope for your sake it is, you can get a few hundred. You might want to first research the mint production process. Such an error is probably not possible now because they are so careful about die alignments, the equipment in the mint probably won't even fit together to produce such things. Whether that was the case when this was made, well, you can send them a photo and ask if it was possible.
