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New Member
United States
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We recently purchased this silver Washington quarter, and I have been unable to figure out exactly what is wrong with it. The coin weighs 5.5g, and is a yellowish/copper color. Normal silver quarters have a weight of 6.25g, 90% silver 10% copper. This is roughly the weight of a clad quarter. There is no visible defects with the rest of the coin, including the rim. Does anyone have an idea what is going on with this quarter? Any insight would be appreciated!   Edited by ame5057
04/18/2013 2:44 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Possibly struck on foreign planchet?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Curious...can you post of pic of the edge reeding?
Also, is that a scratch below In God We Trust? If so...is their any difference in color within the scratch under magnification?
Does it sound like silver?
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Valued Member
Canada
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Is it magnetic? If it is, than it might have been struck on a foreign planchet. Whatever it is, it is a cool find that could be valuable to an error collector.
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New Member
 United States
34 Posts |
The coin is not magnetic. I originally thought it might be a foreign planchet, but what coin was being made around that time which it could have been, that would have been copper/bronze? Usually wrong planchet errors are pretty obvious which one it is.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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THe U.S. was striking F.O.'s in 1944. For example, they struck .925 fine sterling silver coinage for Australia.
I have seen an example of an Australian florin (2/-, or 'two bob'), struck on a U.S. wartime nickel blank.
This one looks like a brass planchet. It looks fully struck up. That is OK. For the same diameter the lesser weight would have been made up with slightly increased thickness. It should be measured for thickness with an accurate micrometer screw gauge. This extra information may help. Brass is less dense than .900 silver.
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New Member
United States
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The pictured quarter is 1.8mm thick, measured from the rim using a gauge. The normal quarter was 1.61mm. I did a google search and found this chart showing foreign coins minted in the United States: http://www.pdxcoinclub.org/articles...%20table.pdfAccording to this chart, we did produce a Greenland coin in Brass in 1944, could this be that Planchet? Edited by ame5057
04/19/2013 10:57 am
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Valued Member
United States
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 I got two ideas. Is it hollow? Also, does it have marks on the side, like some fake coins? BMM |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This isn't my series and I haven't compared it to another one but the spacing of LIBERTY looks odd. Too little spece beteween LI too much between BE. Shouldn't the spacing be even?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Can't be hollow, because it is well struck up.
The strike looks a bit too sharp to be a struck fake. For a struck fake you need copy dies, and some detail is lost in the copying process.
With caligraphy, it is not the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM spacing between the lettering that determines the distance between them; it is the AREA or whole space between them that determines their distance apart.
A problem that spacing can't avoid with good calligraphy is when you have double 'LL''s. That shows up quite well with the word 'DOLLAR'.
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New Member
United States
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The coin does NOT sound silver, but it doesn't exactly sound the same when I compare with a (larger) brass so-called-dollar. This may be because of the size difference, I am not certain. The letters are spaced normally, and I have 0 reason to believe this is a fake. I would take a picture of the edge of the coin, but the entire way around it looks exactly like a normal Washington quarter. There are no visible defects or marks anywhere. Also, there are no scratches on the coin so I can not see the color underneath the surface. I am not going to try either hahaha. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I still can't dismiss the idea that is was struck on a planchet that was intended for another country.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It may be a genuine off-metal error. The only way to be sure is to submit to x-ray flourescence or a specific gravity test.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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