Bubble front Q? :shrug:

[mudpuppy]

This one came from that Southern Run out of Monteagle, TN...

I have never seen a Q like this before...anybody have any ideas? I closely glassed the edge looking for a break thinking perhaps a freeze or even a roasting on a fire caused it...cant see anyplace where the clad laminations are separating......it feels firm not hollow...I doubt it would have gotten out of the mint like this..it would never pass through a Coinstar..I may drill into it, or try to hammer it flat...but thought I'd ask before I destroy a rare and valuable 'one of a kind'.. Maybe a kid put it in a microwave? I am at a loss here..
Mud.

 

[BillF]

Mud, somehow I doubt that that kind of error could possibly make it out of the mint, but stranger things have happened.
I don't think I would mess with it, if nothing else its a great conversation piece.

 

[gmuny$]

I believe that it has been near a heat source or fire. I have found them before like that near old campfires.

 

[Goldstrike]

I first thought it might have been shot at but from the coins Ive seen that have been hit/plugged by a bullet, this coin looks different from them. It looks a little discolored perhaps suggesting it might have been in/near a fire but surely coins don't 'blister' like that? Along with my childhood friends, we used to put coins on a railroad line that ran near my home and watch from afar off as the locomotives used to squeeze them flat so I'm wondering if some kid somewhere may have experimented on this coin?......I'd keep it in the curio cabinet as a talking point for when my metal detecting buds come by! OR you can try selling it on Flee-Bay (or FEE-Bay)!!! for a thousand bucks?

 

[jim tn]

Go for the thousand bucks. We all have more curio's now then we know what to do with. HH jim tn

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

Fun find. I would leave it alone until you find out more. May well have been the result of something that occurred to after it left the mint
HH - Bruce

 

[IBdiggin]

Hernia

 

[mudpuppy]

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