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Help With "Fake" Washington Quarter.

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For a living I do construction. We recently had a demo job at a old pharmacy.Being the collector that I am I snagged every coin I could find. This one happened to be by one of the old cash registers. They had it taped on a pole and when I dropped it in acetone to better make out the date,etc the word FAKE was on the reverse of it.

It is defiantly not the same as a normal quarter. Weighs one gram less. If it isn't fake then I'm thinking it might be missing a layer or something...

I can kind of make out the date to be 1990. It is a little crusty though so please bare with.
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Looks to have had its outer clad layer removed by acid.
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That looks genuine, but acid damaged.
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Acid or a dug coin,a metal detector find.
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Yep, its acid dippid...
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Cool thanks for the info everyone.
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I agree with the others ....looks real

But something acidic has taken away some of this coin
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Some acids can will dissolve the nickel and leave the copper. This is probably what happened.
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I heard that being in a water fountain for a long period of time could do this to a quarter. The lower or higher pH could do this. Snowman
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