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Rest in Peace
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I have a really, really dark quarter that I found by the side of an asphalt road. No telling how many years it had lain there in the sun, soaking up the sun and exhaust fumes.
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Bedrock of the Community
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ok, but what about weight? I mean, I have not weighed it yet, but it feals lighter then a regulare quarter.
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the weight is .......
sorry, I am using a bad, cheap scale..... but it is the best scale I could find.
the cheap scale says around 5.7 grams.
i passed the quarter around this morning, and everybody said it felt lighter than a real quarter.
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06/15/2012 09:48 am
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Pillar of the Community
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so probably damage, not error?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thinking that a coin "feels" lighter is a subjective measurement that is almost always wrong, an average person cannot discern a weight difference of 1 gram or less. Quantitative measurements are absolute and the scale does not lie(unless the calibration is off). As I stated earlier, this is environmental damage which is a catch-all phrase that can describe anything from fire damage to burial in soil.
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I agree it looks like hundreds of clad quarters I have dug from the ground. I don't know why but clad coinage almost always looks black. As do nickels. However cents and silver seem to do very well.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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You know, you can always just hang onto it until you can find a decent scale.
Or you can make a balance scale out of a Popsicle stick and a pencil. This will not give you the weight but it will let you know if it is significantly lighter than another quarter.
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Hello bugmanmiller I also found one of those black quarters.I even tried acetone to remove the black coloring.Well its not coming off.I really dont think the mint could overlook those to easy.probly PMD.. Here is the one I found   |
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I have a newbie question.
How do you know that this isn't a sintered coin?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A coin struck on an improperly annealed planchet should be fully lustrous. Without luster, you have to assume environmental damage.
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Rest in Peace
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 Thank you, biokemist6. |
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Hello there bugmanmiller. This posting was done quite some time ago but I'm curious to know if you still have this quarter and if you ever weighed the quarter on a better, more accurate scale. I too found a 1980 black quarter that was entirely smooth (edges and both sides) and significantly underweight. It appears to look different than the other black coin images provided to you. There is no damage to the coin (scrapes, scratches, knicks, etc). It still has nice detail. I searched the quarter and find this post as well as a couple others in different forums that provided much of the same description. I'm wondering if it just a coincidence and they are all results of environmental damage or if there's more to it!!  Any updates from you or others would be much appreciated. Thank you! |
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 To CCF Shereeses! I doubt you'll get an update, since this thread is from 2012. The OP hasn't been on CCF since 2013. Errers and Varietys.
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