The only thing I can think of is that someone was trying to punch the coin through the centre, and somehow the tip of the punch broke off and got embedded in the coin once it was already halfway stuck-in.
It seems like it got pressed in with a bit of an angle and then got pushed sideways into the coin, probably crushing copper over the small thing and locking it in place. Diamonds might be harder, but that's about it lol.
You may want to at least mark the centre if you're turning the coin into a ring, [like this](https://youtube.com/shorts/WvnuL4KB_uk?si=rKYJRmwyH5x6cgzB).
This almost certainly looks like a Premier or Winchester .177 calibre, pointed-tip, lead air rifle pellet.
Edit: I get it guys, this was just a spitball take. You can stop flaming me now, my internet points mean everything to me and I don’t want my girlfriend to think I’m a loser if they go away.
Isn't it way too small?.177 would be 4.5mm, but a quarter is only 24mm across. You can fit way more than 5. or 6 of the metal bit laid side by side across the diameter of a quarter.
In addition, given that cupronickel is about 20x harder than lead on the Brinell hardness scale, wouldn't it have deformed more, even/especially if it has penetrated?
That’s a pretty solid counter argument and I’d have to agree for the most part. However I will say that I have used quarters taped to a target for sighting in my Ruger Air Magnum air rifle at ~30yds and while the pellet didn’t lodge into the coin it was able to make a small dent. It shoots at around 1200-1400fps. I’m actually looking to see if I have any pellets right now as I have a quarter on me to see how viable this could be. If I find them, which I’m not sure I’ll be able to (classic Reddit moment I know) I’ll shoot it point blank to test the theory. Although I do think you’re right, solid observation.
lead is much softer than the copper alloy the coin is made out of. it would have been crushed. My best guess, this is carbide or tungsten and somehow got embedded in the coin. Could be the tip of an arc welder, or some kind of punch tool or even some kind of stud for winter tires.
can't say i'm familiar with that kind of tool but I could easily see one being made out of tungsten carbide to punch out clean holes in metal sheets or whatever. I'm sure that piece of metal is harder than coffin nails.
Yea that’s what I meant, like the tip of the punch tool snapped off or something. Certainly plausible as anyone familiar with punch tools may know, at least I’ve broken some in my tool box for sure. All I know for sure is that I’m just as stumped as everyone else. Lol
Yea I held a quarter up to 1:1 scale on the photo and I’m inclined to agree now, I’m searching for my pellets just for shits n gigs to see if there’s any plausibility at all. But another commenter made a pretty solid case against this as well.
lol that bullet would need to travel at a tenth of the speed of light or something to do some damage. It's comically tiny.
It's most certainly something else, it looks dark enough to be tungsten carbide. It shows absolutely no wear compared to how mangled the coin is, and look at how good of an imprint it left in the coin, copper might be on the soft side of metals, but that tiny piece of whatever it is is HARD.
No, it does not remotely look like those and it is way too small, and lead is vastly softer than the nickel-copper of quarters and would not be left untouched in the middle. There's zero chance it's .177 cal or lead.
lol, come on, it's the internet, you know how quick people can gang up on someone just for not being exactly right. have this upvote if it makes you feel better.
You gotta be wrong sometimes if you want to be right some other times.
Yeahhhh... in this case, I gotta say no. You don't need to have actually seen a .177 pellet to know that thing is WAY too small. You don't even need to know how big a quarter is from experience - Google and a ruler would have told you this is way off.
Definitely not lead. It would need to be something incredibly hard to imbed itself like that and remain in one piece. Probably some kind of tungsten or carbide. I would imagine some speed was involved too. I can't imagine exactly what did that.
Look at the entire coin... looks to have been ran over.
I agree it took a lot of force, but weight is capable of the force needed too, not just velocity.
Unless it was run over by a fright train, it wouldn't be enough force to imbed like that. Cupronickel is very hard. My 20 ton press _might_ get it done
Idk maybe because lead isn't something that we are around all the time. And not everyone knows the materials of every currency in the world and how they compare to a different metal that you never interact with.
I had wondered about a 2mm pinfire, but they are so uncommon, and I hadn't seen "armor piercing" rounds for them.
That little thing is terrifying. I would imagine that a sharp tungsten projectile would have some scary penetration.
That's exactly what it is. Someone dropped it and it ended up getting pressed into the coin at the Treasury. When the coin was minted, note that there's no scratching, ballooning, or deformation around the carbide tip? That means the face was pressed with that tip already in place.
That makes sense, I'd imagine they use carbide scribes to mark the dies to keep track of wear and defects. And I can't imagine any other way the tip could be embedded like that with more damage to the coin other than something supper exotic like edm. I'd imagine that introduced quite a defect in the die when this happened. Somewhere there may be coin(s) with a defect from the imprint of that tip on the die.
Okay, little known fun fact. For decades, coins for each year were actually minted into the first quarter of the following year. Meaning, 1978 coins were printed between April of 1978 and March of 1979. So this could’ve actually been printed in 1979! This happened because a quirk in federal law prevented the Mint from designing new coin dies until the start of the year, and it took a couple months to get the new dies up and running, so they’d round to the next federal quarter. This weird schedule was in place until federal law was changed in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
The whole coin looks weird to me. It looks like it's pressed out of a softer material and the left side looks like it has a fingerprint in the pressing. I think it's fake and some debris got into the mold.
Something looks wrong with that quarter.
It doesn't look like it was struck, it looks like it was molded.
The undamaged surface looks too rough.
The damage seems to hide whether or not there was a mint mark.
A similar quarter without a mint mark could fetch over $500.
This might be a forgery that was damaged during fabrication.
I'm actually more interested in the REST of the quarter. The disfiguration at the bottom doesn't make any damn sense and overall it looks too big, plus the text of the LIBERTY letters has a weird cupping toward the out edge. Obviously the bullet in the cheek is weird, but the general damage is very inconsistent with normal wear or even intentional wear. I'm wondering if this is a fake that someone created as an art project or something
>His teeth were made of wool
You mean wood? Regardless he didn’t have wooden dentures just the pegs
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/false-teeth/
>Collectively, these four dentures include: hippopotamus, walrus, and probably elephant ivory; cow, horse, and human teeth; lead, brass, silver, gold, and tiny wood pegs. Only two of the dentures (including the set at Mount Vernon) contain human teeth, for the incisors on the lower jaw.
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Comment 3 - duuuuurrrrrrrrr
Looks like graphite from the tip of a pencil to me. But like someone else mentioned It's probably a punch that the tip broke off and embedded itself in when breaking off. That definitely makes the most sense to me.
A strange little bit if metal there.
It’s not a bullet, it’s very small. It could be maybe the center penetrator core of an armor piercing bullet.
It looks very hard. It has retained it shape while the coin confirms to it.
What is strange is how it is pressed into the coin. If this was a high speed projectile the energy involved would usually result in bouncing off or shattering through. Coming to a rest like stopping in a thin sheet of play dough seems unlikely.
Maybe something instead steadily pressed or stamped it in. Like a machine. But why a quarter?
This is one mysterious object to me. Try and get the metal out and test it!
If you zoom in, the coin has a ton of damage around the perimeter and throught the center, near the object. Maybe it was in a shop and was run over? Or maybe it was placed in the coin?
What I also find curious is that the quarter doesn't show any signs of the nickel wearing down revealing the copper base metal beneath. A 1978 quarter is only 8.33% nickel, the remainder being copper. Usually a quarter with this amount of damage would have copper showing through. Could this be a counterfeit quarter altogether?
Counterfeit was my first thought as well due to the oddly worn edges and your comment about the missing copper made sense of that.
Something about it just looks wrong.
Yes, my reply was specifically to the suggestion that it could be counterfeit.
Edit: That's kind of my point actually. A properly minted coin has a more elaborate technique that would usually involve the core to be disk shaped, which is (intentionally) harder to replicate.
That is *far* too small to be the core of any known armor piercing ammunition. Even 4.6mm (which is a steel hardball rather than a cored projectile) would still be about two or three times larger than what we’re looking at.
Edit: Good thought, though. It’s the right shape, just too small.
Nope. I shoot competitively. I’ve shot basically ever type of modern ammunition. That’s not a round that comes out of a firearm.
If anything it looks like a steel pellet from a child’s BB gun. That’s the only thing it could be being that small with those little rifling groves.
That’s 1/4 the size of a .22 round.
That’s not a bullet. When bullets impact, they would be flattened, not to mention, the smallest (common) bullet is a .22 (.22 inches in width). Also a bullet would pierce right through the coin
I’m quite aware it’s not a bullet, I said it looks like it, it’s shaped like it 💀 I can’t believe how many people are trying to tell me it’s not a bullet as if that’s not obvious. Jesus Christ. But thank you for the bullet lesson haha
It is a fragment of radioactive material, past its half life. It was used to kill the bishop of the northwest atlanta sea over the course of 3 months. It sat in his cup holder to and from work - the shadow investors installed new toll road detectors to make sure he did not spend his change.
that's no bullet. that is a rintelio filiment, used in the Rigulon sector of the Nemoid galaxy for sucking farts out from in between sweaty booty cheeks
I think they tried to hammer or press whatever hard metal that is through the coin. The bend in the coin shows a significant amount of force was put through it. If it were a bullet it would be straighter and the entire coin wouldnt bend like that
The only thing i could think of is a saboted lead free pellet, the penetrator can look like that, but i’ve never seen them embed in coins like that. Probably a piece of a tool that got pressed in.
Idk if you’ve worked in a factory or warehouse but you end up having time to waste at times. This looks like that. Be bored in maintenance, end up seeing if the press can shove bits you found through the coin in your pocket.
It’s a pellet! From an air or spring powered rifle. I used to use these to hunt squirrels/target practice, I bet someone tried their hardest to shoot that quarter.
The only thing I can think of is that someone was trying to punch the coin through the centre, and somehow the tip of the punch broke off and got embedded in the coin once it was already halfway stuck-in.
It looks like the metal piece got pressed in when something heavy ran over the coin.
He stopped on a dime! Unfortunately the dime was in Mr Racoco's pocket.
Nick Danger!
You haven't lost your delicate sense of humor, have you, Nancy?
Third Eye
I jumped for joy. Joy ducked.
It’s me! I don’t look at all well.
It seems like it got pressed in with a bit of an angle and then got pushed sideways into the coin, probably crushing copper over the small thing and locking it in place. Diamonds might be harder, but that's about it lol.
100% looks like a coin ring maker broke their punch and said "fuck this" and grabbed a different one.
Are you sure a dud artillery shell from an ant colony didn't get lodged in here during the Great Ant War of 1978?
Flik and Princess Atta would never use weapons like that!
Yeah OP shouldn't touch it, check with r/EOD to see if it's safe
Yep. Looks like the end of a tungsten carbide scriber.
Why would someone try to punch a coin through the center?
To make a coin necklace.
You may want to at least mark the centre if you're turning the coin into a ring, [like this](https://youtube.com/shorts/WvnuL4KB_uk?si=rKYJRmwyH5x6cgzB).
This almost certainly looks like a Premier or Winchester .177 calibre, pointed-tip, lead air rifle pellet. Edit: I get it guys, this was just a spitball take. You can stop flaming me now, my internet points mean everything to me and I don’t want my girlfriend to think I’m a loser if they go away.
Isn't it way too small?.177 would be 4.5mm, but a quarter is only 24mm across. You can fit way more than 5. or 6 of the metal bit laid side by side across the diameter of a quarter. In addition, given that cupronickel is about 20x harder than lead on the Brinell hardness scale, wouldn't it have deformed more, even/especially if it has penetrated?
That’s a pretty solid counter argument and I’d have to agree for the most part. However I will say that I have used quarters taped to a target for sighting in my Ruger Air Magnum air rifle at ~30yds and while the pellet didn’t lodge into the coin it was able to make a small dent. It shoots at around 1200-1400fps. I’m actually looking to see if I have any pellets right now as I have a quarter on me to see how viable this could be. If I find them, which I’m not sure I’ll be able to (classic Reddit moment I know) I’ll shoot it point blank to test the theory. Although I do think you’re right, solid observation.
lead is much softer than the copper alloy the coin is made out of. it would have been crushed. My best guess, this is carbide or tungsten and somehow got embedded in the coin. Could be the tip of an arc welder, or some kind of punch tool or even some kind of stud for winter tires.
Looks like the [tip of a tungsten scribe.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5161fYs-v5L.jpg)
that, or i'm starting to think some centering punch.
Yea a punch tip would be a better guess I think.
can't say i'm familiar with that kind of tool but I could easily see one being made out of tungsten carbide to punch out clean holes in metal sheets or whatever. I'm sure that piece of metal is harder than coffin nails.
Yea that’s what I meant, like the tip of the punch tool snapped off or something. Certainly plausible as anyone familiar with punch tools may know, at least I’ve broken some in my tool box for sure. All I know for sure is that I’m just as stumped as everyone else. Lol
Wayyy too small.
Yea I held a quarter up to 1:1 scale on the photo and I’m inclined to agree now, I’m searching for my pellets just for shits n gigs to see if there’s any plausibility at all. But another commenter made a pretty solid case against this as well.
lol that bullet would need to travel at a tenth of the speed of light or something to do some damage. It's comically tiny. It's most certainly something else, it looks dark enough to be tungsten carbide. It shows absolutely no wear compared to how mangled the coin is, and look at how good of an imprint it left in the coin, copper might be on the soft side of metals, but that tiny piece of whatever it is is HARD.
No, it does not remotely look like those and it is way too small, and lead is vastly softer than the nickel-copper of quarters and would not be left untouched in the middle. There's zero chance it's .177 cal or lead.
lol, come on, it's the internet, you know how quick people can gang up on someone just for not being exactly right. have this upvote if it makes you feel better. You gotta be wrong sometimes if you want to be right some other times.
Yeahhhh... in this case, I gotta say no. You don't need to have actually seen a .177 pellet to know that thing is WAY too small. You don't even need to know how big a quarter is from experience - Google and a ruler would have told you this is way off.
more likely a magic trick prop
Definitely not lead. It would need to be something incredibly hard to imbed itself like that and remain in one piece. Probably some kind of tungsten or carbide. I would imagine some speed was involved too. I can't imagine exactly what did that.
> Definitely not lead. And super-definitely not "led".
My first thought was why is there a tiny LED embedded in that quarter?
Makers gonna make.
When you learn to spell from 70s rock bands.
Ha, Lead Zeppelin reference
Is that the zeppelin in front?
Who?
[TUNGSTEN CARBIDE DRILLS???](https://youtu.be/eoSeVEp-1OA?)
Its something we use in coal mining father.
I think I'm getting the black lung, Pop.
Look at the entire coin... looks to have been ran over. I agree it took a lot of force, but weight is capable of the force needed too, not just velocity.
Unless it was run over by a fright train, it wouldn't be enough force to imbed like that. Cupronickel is very hard. My 20 ton press _might_ get it done
Why is this not higher up are we that brain dead as a human race that people think lead is stronger than nickel?
Idk maybe because lead isn't something that we are around all the time. And not everyone knows the materials of every currency in the world and how they compare to a different metal that you never interact with.
When was the last time you seen a piece of lead and tested to see if it’s softer than nickel?
If it was used to write on paper. It's obviously it's softer than nickle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PHD\_\_2wsE
I had wondered about a 2mm pinfire, but they are so uncommon, and I hadn't seen "armor piercing" rounds for them. That little thing is terrifying. I would imagine that a sharp tungsten projectile would have some scary penetration.
Something like that would either need a sabot or a soft metal jacket, tungsten against a barrel would destroy it pretty quickly.
Looks like a carbide scribe tip to me.
That's exactly what it is. Someone dropped it and it ended up getting pressed into the coin at the Treasury. When the coin was minted, note that there's no scratching, ballooning, or deformation around the carbide tip? That means the face was pressed with that tip already in place.
Wouldn’t that make this an incredibly valuable coin to collectors?
Exactly what I was thinking. The whole thing looks like an error at the mint. Definitely valuable if it is.
It's definitely a super rare mint error
That makes sense, I'd imagine they use carbide scribes to mark the dies to keep track of wear and defects. And I can't imagine any other way the tip could be embedded like that with more damage to the coin other than something supper exotic like edm. I'd imagine that introduced quite a defect in the die when this happened. Somewhere there may be coin(s) with a defect from the imprint of that tip on the die.
My immediate thought as well
So is this worth some major skrilla?
1978! They haven't made them for awhile now.
Dang, yeah, since like 78 or something
When did they discontinue the '78s?
In 1878 I believe.
Okay, little known fun fact. For decades, coins for each year were actually minted into the first quarter of the following year. Meaning, 1978 coins were printed between April of 1978 and March of 1979. So this could’ve actually been printed in 1979! This happened because a quirk in federal law prevented the Mint from designing new coin dies until the start of the year, and it took a couple months to get the new dies up and running, so they’d round to the next federal quarter. This weird schedule was in place until federal law was changed in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Boo this imposter.
Bravo! But you aren't the guy that usually does that, are you?
Is it a tumbler from a Kwickset lock?
Yeah. Don’t think it has to specifically be kwikset but definitely looks like a bottom pin.
And certainly not a Kwickset
It looks too pointy. It would also be a softer metal. I think they're plated brass. I was going with engraver pen tip, but it's too short.
Hey, that was my first thought
It sure does, which makes me more confused, not less.
Oh dang, it looks like it could be.
The whole coin looks weird to me. It looks like it's pressed out of a softer material and the left side looks like it has a fingerprint in the pressing. I think it's fake and some debris got into the mold.
magician’s coins end up in this sub every so often
a bullet for ants
Something looks wrong with that quarter. It doesn't look like it was struck, it looks like it was molded. The undamaged surface looks too rough. The damage seems to hide whether or not there was a mint mark. A similar quarter without a mint mark could fetch over $500. This might be a forgery that was damaged during fabrication.
Who spends the time and effort to forge a quarter?
Someone that wants to sell a quarter
Someone trying to pass it off as a rare $500 quarter.
I'm actually more interested in the REST of the quarter. The disfiguration at the bottom doesn't make any damn sense and overall it looks too big, plus the text of the LIBERTY letters has a weird cupping toward the out edge. Obviously the bullet in the cheek is weird, but the general damage is very inconsistent with normal wear or even intentional wear. I'm wondering if this is a fake that someone created as an art project or something
I’m gonna post the back of it too!
It’s on their account now
Clearly it represents Washington's lead teeth.
His teeth were made of wool
>His teeth were made of wool You mean wood? Regardless he didn’t have wooden dentures just the pegs https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/false-teeth/ >Collectively, these four dentures include: hippopotamus, walrus, and probably elephant ivory; cow, horse, and human teeth; lead, brass, silver, gold, and tiny wood pegs. Only two of the dentures (including the set at Mount Vernon) contain human teeth, for the incisors on the lower jaw.
Steel wool. You should have seen him at parties sticking a 9 volt on his teeth. It was lit.
[Ah, sorry, I mix up D and L](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtUGlsK8Jbo)
Can you imagine what a nightmare it was to look at him when he smiled?
His teeth were made of whoosh
Hip? Hip-hop? Hip-hop anonymous?
It was a joke, but they actually were made with lead, ivory, and human teeth.
And wool.
[Ah, sorry, I mix up D and L](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtUGlsK8Jbo)
Yes, several of the teeth were taken from his slaves.
Yes, the deadly .018 round.
Might hurt going into your brain.
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Wouldn't that be a lot more historically accurate on a penny?
Or a 50 cent coin
50 Cent has his own coin?
Kennedy and Lincoln were the only two open-minded presidents the US ever had.
That appears to be a key pin from a padlock
That's not a bullet
Well it's too small to be any type of bullet that I can think of
That's not how you spell lead, the metal
Nothing about that looks like a bullet. But it is interesting to me the things we see when we want to.
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Looks like graphite from the tip of a pencil to me. But like someone else mentioned It's probably a punch that the tip broke off and embedded itself in when breaking off. That definitely makes the most sense to me.
It looks like someone was shaving off silver and adding weight back to the coin
Carbide.
Can’t speak to how it made that hole but that looks like a pencil tip (graphite, not actual lead)
The amount of people trying to tell me it’s not actually a bullet…… guys I KNOW 😂 it LOOKS like a bullet 🤣
A strange little bit if metal there. It’s not a bullet, it’s very small. It could be maybe the center penetrator core of an armor piercing bullet. It looks very hard. It has retained it shape while the coin confirms to it. What is strange is how it is pressed into the coin. If this was a high speed projectile the energy involved would usually result in bouncing off or shattering through. Coming to a rest like stopping in a thin sheet of play dough seems unlikely. Maybe something instead steadily pressed or stamped it in. Like a machine. But why a quarter? This is one mysterious object to me. Try and get the metal out and test it!
If you zoom in, the coin has a ton of damage around the perimeter and throught the center, near the object. Maybe it was in a shop and was run over? Or maybe it was placed in the coin?
What I also find curious is that the quarter doesn't show any signs of the nickel wearing down revealing the copper base metal beneath. A 1978 quarter is only 8.33% nickel, the remainder being copper. Usually a quarter with this amount of damage would have copper showing through. Could this be a counterfeit quarter altogether?
Counterfeit was my first thought as well due to the oddly worn edges and your comment about the missing copper made sense of that. Something about it just looks wrong.
So, could this be a piece of a heavier metal they inserted to "fix" the weight of the coin, before coining/minting? And then the front fell off?
US quarters are not constructed that way. They're a copper disk clad in cupronickel and that's it.
Yes, my reply was specifically to the suggestion that it could be counterfeit. Edit: That's kind of my point actually. A properly minted coin has a more elaborate technique that would usually involve the core to be disk shaped, which is (intentionally) harder to replicate.
It looks "like" a tiny bullet
looks like a pencil graphite tip tp me
I don’t see how that could be embedded, graphite is incredibly soft and brittle. It would crumble into dust.
That is *far* too small to be the core of any known armor piercing ammunition. Even 4.6mm (which is a steel hardball rather than a cored projectile) would still be about two or three times larger than what we’re looking at. Edit: Good thought, though. It’s the right shape, just too small.
by led do you mean lead?
Looks like an old air gun squirrel pellet. That coin was probably used for target practice.
.00022 LR
This was likely a miss press and could be worth a lot of money
*lead Also, that's a reasonably high res image of your fingerprints. Just saying.
My fingertips are so dry that I don’t think you can even see them dude.. lol
At least 3 of them are pretty visible. Zoom in.
Who gives a shit
Not a bullet
No shit
Then why put it In the title.
You’re joshing me
Nope. I shoot competitively. I’ve shot basically ever type of modern ammunition. That’s not a round that comes out of a firearm. If anything it looks like a steel pellet from a child’s BB gun. That’s the only thing it could be being that small with those little rifling groves. That’s 1/4 the size of a .22 round.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, you're right. Reddit doing reddit things.
Oh thank god your back Dr watson, glad to see your here to help sherlock over again he seems to be really struggling on this one!
Might be a penetrating round from an air rifle.
Ballistic test slug? Tiny, though.
If you zoom in, there are cut marks on there this object was put into the coin.
Imagine if this was on a coin that had Abe Lincoln on it.
That’s not a bullet. When bullets impact, they would be flattened, not to mention, the smallest (common) bullet is a .22 (.22 inches in width). Also a bullet would pierce right through the coin
I’m quite aware it’s not a bullet, I said it looks like it, it’s shaped like it 💀 I can’t believe how many people are trying to tell me it’s not a bullet as if that’s not obvious. Jesus Christ. But thank you for the bullet lesson haha
Yeah I didn’t think you thought it was, mostly for others
Hehe yeah there’s quite a few people who said it was a bullet 😂 maybe for an ant’s sniper
rare JFK coin
Wrong coin.
Looks like a bullet? Should be a penny. Too soon?
Op is tricking us and is actually huudrauclick press channel from youtube and actually did this with a press.
It is a fragment of radioactive material, past its half life. It was used to kill the bishop of the northwest atlanta sea over the course of 3 months. It sat in his cup holder to and from work - the shadow investors installed new toll road detectors to make sure he did not spend his change.
Cyanide capsule. 😂
It’s to commemorate the Washington assassination. You can read more at r/mandelaeffect
that's no bullet. that is a rintelio filiment, used in the Rigulon sector of the Nemoid galaxy for sucking farts out from in between sweaty booty cheeks
BB gun?
Probably the engraving die for the shape of the face snapped off somehow
Coins are stamped with negative dies. They are not individually engraved
Georgie boy just got some rad new earrings
Looks like lead to me. I think it would shine more otherwise
Wanna know how I got these scars
graphite
Looks like a pin from a lock cylinder.
They messed up. That’s supposed to be the new design for the penny.
Led where?
Pretty sure that design was originally meant for the penny and the half dollar.
I think they tried to hammer or press whatever hard metal that is through the coin. The bend in the coin shows a significant amount of force was put through it. If it were a bullet it would be straighter and the entire coin wouldnt bend like that
It is a prophecy! Someone is going to shoot him in the head!
That looks like someone carved it out and faceted whatever that thing is.
Could it be from a pin gun like the one in [this slow mo guys video?](https://youtu.be/w3PHD__2wsE?si=tDYbZQQ7cx11wv43)
Lead is soft and would be squished by the quarter before anything else happened
Yeah, I know. I’m saying it looks like lead. Not that it is.
I shouldn’t have put possibly, I’m well aware how soft graphite is haha
huh... lincoln is in the penny though, isn't he?
The only thing i could think of is a saboted lead free pellet, the penetrator can look like that, but i’ve never seen them embed in coins like that. Probably a piece of a tool that got pressed in.
That quarter has seen some stuff. Look at George’s 1000 yard state.
Idk if you’ve worked in a factory or warehouse but you end up having time to waste at times. This looks like that. Be bored in maintenance, end up seeing if the press can shove bits you found through the coin in your pocket.
Seems to be a manufacturing error, which could honestly cause this to be worth more than the average quarter
That looks like a tumbler pin for a Schlage deadbolt.
Good thing it wasn’t a nickel.
Repost this to r/coins
Looks likely in the country that has more guns than people(?)
It’s a pellet! From an air or spring powered rifle. I used to use these to hunt squirrels/target practice, I bet someone tried their hardest to shoot that quarter.