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The answer is both... (but mostly hard life)
1. A very rough life... these coins a multi-ply plated. They are steel, plated with nickel, then a thicker layer of copper, and then a thinner layer of nickel... The outside plating is being eroded away from that coin, and where the steel core was exposed (like the caribou's antler), it is rusting...
2. There is too much damage on the coin, but it _may_ have been struck with a partial collar, or it could have been worn on the edge and rust is even getting in the rim...
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Thanks alot for the quick and informative reply.
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By the look of the rim, it looks to me like a cast counterfeit. How much does it weigh ?
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01/02/2018 8:19 pm
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I don't think anyone would fake a 2006 quarter, this quarter just took a beating
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John100, Some people are crooked. Someone would fake it because they can make money (in 2 ways). That's why I asked the weight. Two pot-metal, 4 gram counterfeit quarters were found when the guy came to empty the change from a video game in my corner store, in Montreal in the late 1980's. The rim showed a slightly off-set seam around it. Also, the rim on the original photos for this post looked similar to several of my cast 1832 imitation tokens. Now where did I put those old, old photos I took back in 1988 of the fake quarter ? ... Found them !   Edited by TerryT
01/04/2018 02:58 am
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John100's response is exactly why lower denomination counterfeits are made. No one looks for them. I have a LARGE selection of contemporary fakes. All denominations. MM
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