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Bedrock of the Community
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Any chance photos of the obverse and reverse can be posted? Please?
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Bedrock of the Community
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 full photos of both sides, please. We almost AWAYS need/would like to see the whole coin. Thanks  |
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New Member
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I believe the weight was around 5.7 it was fairly close to another Guam quarter just sounded like silver when it hits the counter as for the mint mark it is a d That's why I thought it could be an error if it was silver plated and I tried to post photos of the obverse and reverse but I can't seem to get the photos any smaller than two or three megabytes so I haven't been able to post them I'm going to try and figure it out but I'm not home yet and as soon as I get there I will reweigh it and update you
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like on the edge showing a copper color on the reeds.
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Moderator
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I can't seem to get the photos any smaller than two or three megabytes so I haven't been able to post them Here is a link to the free CCF photo optimizer which should solve that problem: https://www.coincommunity.com/image-optimizer/"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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New Member
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  this was the absolute best I could do at 300 kb |
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Should weigh 5.7 grams. Photos could be better,but "looks" like a clad coin not silver. You might try the tissue test? John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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It's been plated. Denver mint doesn't handle precious metals so they wouldn't be receiving silver planchets, and yeah the mint isn't lax on silver and gold inventory. A whole lot of stuff would have to go wrong from inventory exchanges between mint branches for something like this to happen at the mint.
More than likely though it's platinum plated though since that's the most common thing for the marketers to do, either gold or platinum plated regular quarters then sell them for $5 or $10 each to the unsuspecting for big profits.
On your edge pictures you can see the copper/clad line under the plating showing through because it was poorly plated.
All in all though it would be next to impossible for something like this to happen at Denver or Philidelphia. San Francisco could do it, but it would be the silver proof and totally normal to happen there.
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Bedrock of the Community
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For a tissue test you need just a single layer of facial tissue. The towel maybe too too thick:  But if it was plated, it may appear to be the right color, but still an altered coin which turns it a face value coin. |
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Ok thanks for info. Yea the reason I took note was because it was Denver mint and I knew it shouldn't be precious metal my only thing is why it wouldn't weigh more than normal if it was plated but anyway I dont guess it matters I got my question answered as to why it didnt sound normal bouncing off of the counter so thank you all for all the help and for the tissue test info, I'll keep that in my arsenal. |
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Pillar of the Community
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generally plating, like on Lincoln cents since 1982, is 7-8 microns thickness. on these aftermarket plated coins it can be even thinner than that, and as an example a unplated Lincoln Cent could weight 2.42 to 2.50 grams, and could be 2.48 without the plating, but it all really depend on what it weighed initially, due to mint tolerances. If it was 0.02g underweight to begin with, adding 0.02g plating won't appear to change the weight. I guess what I'm saying is, plating is really thin and doesn't add much weight at all. |
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