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I did a quick search and found this thread with Fuzzy's post... http://goccf.com/t/318793&whichpage=3#2741757I just found this in a coinstar ejection shoot. Man, it sure does look like a real proof coin! Stamped copy, no mint mark or IGWT. The edge looks silver. Where do these things come from?    |
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Interesting find. Looks like it may have been five years before the 2009 DC & Territory quarters were issued.
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Interesting find. Looks like it may have been five years before the 2009 DC & Territory quarters were issued. I'm totally lost with this thing. Should I start another thread? It looks like silver and weighs (6.6gm) like silver but it doesn't sound like the other normal silver circulated quarters when I bounce it off the counter top. I see one like Fussy's but this one doesn't have a mint mark. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Silve...047675.l2557 |
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Without any marking indicating purity, I would assume it is silver plated at best.
I can split this into its own topic if you you would like.
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Done.  |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Check out the following link for the backstory on the Washington, DC and Puerto Rico novelty "quarters." Good info provided! Daniel Carr Novelty Quarters(You'll need to scroll the page down a bit.) Based on the edge image provided (and the specs on Daniel Carr's web site), the coin shown by the OP is silver-plated not solid silver. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Thanks for moving this Buck!
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11/20/2020 09:17 am
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Your are welcome. |
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Yep, commems you da man!! This spells it out. Thanks for that link!!  !!   |
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Excellent! I suspected a real silver one would have the fineness on it somewhere. |
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I suspected a real silver one would have the fineness on it somewhere. No, nowhere at all on the coin. |
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So it's a copy, not legal tender? That's why the CoinStar spit it out?
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Technically, it's not a copy as it does not duplicate an actual coin. I realize that "COPY" is stamped into the obverse, but that was done to help prevent folks from trying to use the piece as a real quarter - it's design fits in with other quarters of the Statehood program, so some could be confused by it.
Regarding CoinStar rejecting it - the machine did not recognize the medal's magnetic signature (i.e., it did not match that of a valid US coin) and so the sorting mechanism rejected it.
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Again, thanks very much commems! ! |
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