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1970-D Washington Quarter Weighing 4.3g?

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 Posted Today  3H 53M ago  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
A split planchet on a clad coin would probably just be a cladding layer loss. This looks much more consistent with a 1970-D quarter struck on dime stock. An excellent find, and in very nice condition!
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Tried to send you a PM suggesting you change your "title" to Washington...but you're not accepting PM's.
If a Dime is supposed to be 2.27g and a Nickel 5.0g...I'm leaning towards a Nickel if yours is 4.3g?
Maybe the reason you used Jefferson in your title?
Cool find!
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If a Dime is supposed to be 2.27g and a Nickel 5.0g...I'm leaning towards a Nickel if yours is 4.3g?



Not struck on a dime planchet but a quarter planchet that came from dime stock, big difference.

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Maybe I need another coffee...
I'm just not following it...?

teach me so I understand please.
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Smat, the metal for coins comes in sheets. For quarters and dimes, the clad layers are already in the metal sheets when the mint receives them. The sheets for dimes are considerably thinner than the sheets for quarters.

Someone at the Denver Mint in 1970 put a dime thickness roll of sheet metal into the cutting press for quarters. The resulting quarter planchets were the correct diameter, but were the thickness of a dime instead of a quarter. That makes them way underweight, and the planchets strike badly around the perimeter.
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So the Quarter was punched out from Dime stock and because the Quarter is larger than a Dime hence the discrepancy in weight?
Is this the reason folks were asking for pics of the Dime?
Perhaps the view from the side?
Boy oh boy...that coffee really helped!
Thanks -makecents-...you helped me make sense! You too Brand!
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Thanks for breaking it down, Brand.
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So...where does Jefferson in the title come into play?

Thanks again fellas!
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So...where does Jefferson in the title come into play?
Fixed.
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Cool, it does look real to me.
Could one of the mods link my 1970-D quarter struck on dime stock that I uploaded a few years ago as a comparison?
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Not a Mod but here ya go.



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Cool, it does look real to me.
Could one of the mods link my 1970-D quarter struck on dime stock that I uploaded a few years ago as a comparison?




https://goccf.com/t/420230&SearchTerms=dime,stock
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Could one of the mods link my 1970-D quarter struck on dime stock that I uploaded a few years ago as a comparison?
https://goccf.com/t/420230
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