Mandela effect observed: quarters are smaller now

[chill doggie]

I only recently noticed quarters seem smaller than they used to be when I was scrounging up some change.

I gathered 4 of them to give to a poker dealer to complete $40 for a poker tournament add-on as I had $39 dollars in poker chips plus that extra dollar, and when I slid them over he took some pause and seemed to be confused and started examining the amount, I counted the chips for him along with the coins (he’s a new guy and can take a bit longer to process stuff) and he said “are these really quarters?”
Another guy at the table backed me up and said “yeah, they are.”

The dealer said “I took pause because they look small, thought they were dimes and was wondering is chill doggie pulling a fast one?”

I said:
“No bro, it’s a Mandela effect.
I also noticed recently that they are smaller now, although I only use them once in a while when I go to the self-service car wash station so I could just be misremembering.”

The poker dealer said:
“I use them every week when I go to the water mill to fill my 5 gallon water jug.”

That was freaky when he said that.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I haven't touched a quarter for a long time.

But I could swear my penis used to be bigger

 

[Ladder Master]

In 2025 might as well be packing multilple $20's.
Any lower in change is exercise in futility and time.

 

[GSP_37]

More shrinkflation?

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Mandela effect is crazy real. I woke up one day and I had a strange feeling about my penis being a lot bigger. I tell all my girlfriends this a head of time.

 

[William Huggins]

Mandela effect is crazy real. I woke up one day and I had a strange feeling about my penis being a lot bigger. I tell all my girlfriends this a head of time.

Huge if true......

 

[Adamant]

Pics

 

[Bballfan123]

I haven't touched a quarter for a long time.

But I could swear my penis used to be bigger

Don’t worry, it’s the same size, you’re just morbidly obese now so it’s smaller in proportion

 

[Pittie Petey]

Quarters haven’t actually changed size; it’s likely just a perception or memory effect, sometimes called the Mandela Effect, making them seem smaller than you remember.

I didnt believe TS story at first but now that Google AI chat bots are creating accounts just to log in and tell him that he is wrong, yup, there is definitely something going on here...

 

[Osculater]

Maybe your eyes got bigger?

 

[chill doggie]

I didnt believe TS story at first but now that Google AI chat bots are creating accounts just to log in and tell him that he is wrong, yup, there is definitely something going on here...

I won’t bother responding to a white belt but I know that quarters haven’t changed size in THIS timeline, because if they did change them then they wouldn’t work on existing vending machines.

In this timeline they have always been this size.

I’m not an Mandela effect theory expert but it hypothesizes that sometimes groups of people switch realities, so to some people it seems as if they have a false memory of things being different in the past whilst the others don’t.

The rationalist reductive materialist normie explanation is simply erroneous memory or retroactive perception issues accounting for all of these notions, which of course happens sometimes, memory and perception are notoriously fallible.

Even in parapsychology the subject isn’t taken very seriously, until now that some academics are researching the topic given that there are some pretty glaring evidence of apparent reality shifts.

 

[The Clark]

They seemed smaller because they were next to the poker chips. We are used to seeing quarters with other coins, where they are the big fish. Seeing them outsized by another "coin" thus feels off.

 

[chill doggie]

They seemed smaller because they were next to the poker chips. We are used to seeing quarters with other coins, where they are the big fish. Seeing them outsized by another "coin" thus feels off.

I noticed it before being at the poker club myself, when I was holding different coin denominations in my hand that I got out of my coin jar.

I started off looking for the big quarters thought damn I only got small ones, until I noticed the biggest ones were quarters not dimes.

 

[ssBaldy]

I haven't touched a quarter for a long time.

But I could swear my penis used to be bigger

The CIA has been stealing it bit by bit through 5G

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Smaller in what way, TS? They do change in weight and diameter depending on variety:

90% Silver Washington Quarters:
6.25 g
24.26 mm

40% Silver Washington Quarters:
5.75 g
24.3 mm

Copper-nickel clad Washington Quarters:
5.67 g
24.26 mm

Proof-issue 90% Silver Washington Quarters:
6.2 g
24.3 mm

 

[chill doggie]

Smaller in what way, TS? They do change in weight and diameter depending on variety:

90% Silver Washington Quarters:
6.25 g
24.26 mm

40% Silver Washington Quarters:
5.75 g
24.3 mm

Copper-nickel clad Washington Quarters:
5.67 g
24.26 mm

Proof-issue 90% Silver Washington Quarters:
6.2 g
24.3 mm

Ah, that explains it.
I sensed they were off by .04mm

 

[eddymotto]

I haven't touched a quarter for a long time.

But I could swear my penis used to be bigger

Should have taken the flu shot when you had the chance

 

[San Marino]

Quarters have not changed in size or weight.

The impression that quarters are smaller is often due to the removal of silver from the coins in 1965, which made them lighter and different in metallic feel, rather than a change in their dimensions.

 

[italiamusica]

I feel like it's one of those things where you remember from a kids perspective, and things looked bigger than they actually are, so at adult sized it seems tiny and not normal.

 

[William Huggins]

Maybe your eyes got bigger?

No he cuts eye diameter before a fight.......