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1965 Silver Quarter?

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Neat fakes pics--thanks COOP!
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I always flick the quarter in the air like you are doing heads and tails...Silver will ring all the way up and down most of the time. Its not a guaranteed test if you flip it wrong...but if you flip it with a good spin it will sing! Clad sounds die very quickly.
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I don't want to jump to conclusions, but Thomas Campbell's quarter looks like it might have been struck on a nickel planchet (also a valuable error, but not as much as a silver 1965). Of course, it could also just be plated.
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you think the pics are fake?
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I will try and find a pro to take a look at it
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Do a "ring test." Spin the '65 on a piece of glass that is sitting on something solid. Then spin a clad. As the coins settle, the silver will have a more distinctive, high pitched ring. The clad will not. If in doubt still, spin a known silver and see what it sounds like first. I used to find silver quarters in large quantities of quarters by dumping the whole batch onto a sheet of plate glass and listening for them. In fact, I did this so much (with nickels, dimes, and quarters), many years ago, that I can tell normally tell what kind of change people have in their pocket (not how much - just what kind of coins and if they are silver).
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Well three months and we haven't heard the results of Chucksters Specific Gravity test. I think we can guess what the result was. As for Thomas Cambels coin, the very first thing we need to know is what it weighs
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Too bad these devices are too expensive for us hobbyists.

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I saw one of those sensers before. They work great. They tested it on 14 kt gold and it came back as something like 13.9856.
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Sadly, I think they cost $10,000+
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i have a silver 1950 quarter and the 1965 quarter pictured is not silver, but I found 2 1965 quarters and they both have the copper around the edge, so I dont know what the pictured quarter is made of?
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Were you ever able to get an accurate weight? That seems like the next step.
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no, I dont have a accurate scale, sorry
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Quote:
but Thomas Campbell's quarter looks like it might have been struck on a nickel planchet


Well, here is mine. Just for the record, it weighs 4.95g

1965-Silver-Quarter? 1965-Silver-Quarter? 1965-Silver-Quarter? 1965-Silver-Quarter?
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