Agree, you can't trust those videos. Have you ever heard the term yellow journalism? It's alive and well on YouTube. They aren't interested in spreading truths. They are interested in making you think they know all the special secrets to getting rich so that you'll follow them because they paid by their advertisers based on how many subscribers they have.
Note the reeds do look assisted with an extra layer of plating. A vertical scratch on the reed would show that it was plated or not: Expose the copper layer. If it were a silver quarter the weight would be different. 6.25 grams.
I honestly don't watch YouTube at all for numismatics, so I couldn't say, but if you look at Coops signature, I can recommend all of those YouTube videos
IsThisAnything nailed it. YouTube is an absolute cesspool of misinformation when it comes to errors and varieties. A few coin roll hunters are fairly knowledgeable and will discuss what they hunt for in their videos (e.g. Rob Finds Treasure is usually pretty good with some occasional honest mistakes here and there), but any of these guys who make videos on "errors to look for" etc. are basically just con artists trying to get subscribers. The resources you should be using are reference sites like variety vista, coppercoins, error-ref, wexler's die varieties, cudsoncoins, maddieclashes, etc.
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