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can anyone please help me with some info on it thank you   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
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Is is possible for you to weigh it? I think I see plating bubbles to the left of the bust. Could we also get better pics?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Better pictures that aren't as blurry, and less glare would be very helpful in us determining what's happening here. |
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to CCF. Weight? Yes,better pics please. And check your white balance setting. John1  |
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United States
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 Welcome to CCF ! I know it's not easy to get great pictures...I have spent the last two days with my camera, trying everything. Your lighting is everything...we have a section on Photography here and was researching about this lighting issue and found I probably need to build a "white box" ! Good Luck ! Will be watching for your pictures as I'm very curious about your copper quarter as I have a dime the same way.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Most full-weight, full-diameter "copper" quarters are plated. Some are struck counterfeits. Some represent improper annealing errors. A close examination would be required to see which identity this specimen falls under.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Amethyst1970, Mike is a pro and knows his stuff. John1 |
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Canada
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I also have a 1974 quarter that appears to be entirely copper. It seems to be struck just in copper and never had any plating. Either that or the plating somehow vanished off it.
Two side views look like a normal quarter, except in all copper. The edge view however shows that it's the exact thickness of the copper in a regular quarter. I've seen a couple of these around online and no one has yet explained exactly what it is or what happened to it.
Is this an error in stamping or something else? The ones I've seen have been 1974 and some in 1965 I tbink..maybe a couple other years also...but it's not a lot. If this was environmental damage there would be a lot more people asking the same questions that I am about all copper quarters from evwry year. I also really can't figure out how anyone would go about stripping the cladding off a quarter with acid or anything else, or why they would even attempt it.
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@maxum, first welcome to CCF. Second, rather than restart an old thread, best practice is to start your own thread and post front and back pics. With that said, I recommend that you read @mikediamond's response above.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Also the missing cladding would leave the design a bit weaker in appearance:  Note the overall weakness on both sides of the coin. |
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