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Posted 03/04/2020 7:46 pm
Hello again 19agilman79.
I hope you have a clad-free quarter. I'm responding because I have made several copper plated quarters.
A bit of boring background so nobody will think we did it with ill intent (high school chem labs do it as well). Several years ago a friend and I got all caught up in buying bags of "unsearched" Roman coins off ebay. We got hosed to say the least - they WERE Roman coins but tiny tiny and most crusted chunks of metal. So, we decided electrolysis would at least show us the coins, and it did. Interesting, yes. Valuable, no.
Afterward we had the setup to electroplate, so we used root killer (copper sulfate), a car battery, and stripped 12g Romex copper wire. We produced about 14 quarters identical to yours. Brasso would even make them shine like a modern shield penny, but your example matches about 6 of our best efforts. I'm not saying you got one or OUR quarters, but we got the idea from the countless electroplating YouTube videos out there. Most of them electroplate quarters and dimes. I'm not posting to discourage I promise
I hope you have a clad-free quarter. I'm responding because I have made several copper plated quarters.
A bit of boring background so nobody will think we did it with ill intent (high school chem labs do it as well). Several years ago a friend and I got all caught up in buying bags of "unsearched" Roman coins off ebay. We got hosed to say the least - they WERE Roman coins but tiny tiny and most crusted chunks of metal. So, we decided electrolysis would at least show us the coins, and it did. Interesting, yes. Valuable, no.
Afterward we had the setup to electroplate, so we used root killer (copper sulfate), a car battery, and stripped 12g Romex copper wire. We produced about 14 quarters identical to yours. Brasso would even make them shine like a modern shield penny, but your example matches about 6 of our best efforts. I'm not saying you got one or OUR quarters, but we got the idea from the countless electroplating YouTube videos out there. Most of them electroplate quarters and dimes. I'm not posting to discourage I promise
