1954 Washington Quarter
I recently have come a across a 1954 Washington Quarter with a Swastica stamped across the front of the coin. I have seen another one like it on a 1939 Quarter. Any ideas? I have heard some stories
is not engraved.
17 comments
*smedley*
·1 year agoi have a small collection of various coins with the letters US split by an anchor... these are all stamped though... it's a subset of my countermarked/counterstamped collection, which unfortunately took a major hit as i sold dozens of counterstamped Morgans during the Great Selloff Due To Life last decade...
crudely carved symbols like that in the OP coin hold no interest for me...
elheron-grande
·1 year agoWell, during Alt Heron's coin collecting time (since April 1946) he has seen numerous coins with additional carved symbols and initials on them. And in the token collecting area there are many examples of such 'add ons'. Especially with Costa Rican coffee plantation tokens. Coins seem to be carved more during war times. Enemies will deface the opposition's coinage (and paper money also).
And there are the 'jokers' that are attending metal shop. Heron enjoyed 3 semesters of metal shop in high school. We had a small furnace that burned coke. This was in the early 1950s. We could get metals red hot. Plus soften them for 'carving' out the centers. So, if people stay with coin collecting, they will shirly find items with carvings onnem.
stephenmorgan
·1 year agoProbably some SMART ALECK trying to be cute and cause controversy.
Some similar in England.
wri-8727
·1 year agoA early bookselling eBay adage: if there's a swastika on the cover it will sell. For this reason I never buy a book with a on the cover, (and there are plenty, starting about 1972).
This fellow, who defaced the name of God with one, seems not only to have it in for the U S. but for God. Poor soul.
hometow_3230
·1 year agoIt is worth silver spot. No reason to let it offend you, pick your battles, who dont even know who did it, so who will you be offended by???
wri-8727
·1 year agoEustace Mullins published 'The Federal Reserve Conspiracy' in 1954.
That could explain the cutting of the head of the eagle by some poor soul
odhf2002
OP1 year agoCould very well be. Thanks
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoWhat I find just as disturbing as the swastica is the eagles head cut off on the reverse side.
A 1939 quarter could be an aspiring nazi in the early days of the third reich.
A 1954? even more disturbing.....................
chevymontecarlo88
·1 year agoGood catch on the Eagle. Both equally disturbing.
@odhf2002
It does have scrap silver value. About $5. Take it to your local gold/silver buyer if you want to cash out of it.
odhf2002
OP1 year agoLots of sick people!
mooncat_watches
·1 year agoPersonally, I'd melt it down to discourage it circulating among "collectors"
tex-421
·1 year agoPersonally, I’d wrap up in bag of dirty cat litter, throw it in the garbage and make sure it goes to the local municipal garage dump and gets buried for eternity.
moderncoins999
·1 year agoI, agree who would post this **bleep**
Why don't they delete it
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoI once had a client that showed me a 50 cent (don't remember the year of the coin) piece that was hollow inside. He told me he dropped on a tile floor and it separated into 2 pieces. Empty inside.
It was a tight press fit and looked to be a professional job. I could see very fine "turning" marks on one side of the inside like it was somehow hollowed using some sort of lathe or similar device. On the other side of the cavity was the obverse "skin" is guess I'd call it of a mexican peso the same size of the diameter of the cavity.
I tried to buy it from him but he wouldn't sell.
It could have only held something fairly thin, microfilm maybe?
Definitly looked to be some sort of cloak and dagger spy kind of thing.
Probably used and then discarded or spent afterwards..........................
stephenmorgan
·1 year agoOld spy technology. Now you can much more information inside a nickel.
unclekipsy
·1 year agoNot stamped...carved. It's just worth it's weight in silver.
nyr134
·1 year agoIf I came across that, I’d toss it in the trash.