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I'm sure this is a misunderstanding, but did the philadelphia mint produce 40% silver clad bicentennial quarters? this is a 1975-6 no mint mark bicentennial that weighs 5.72 grams. it was "teetering" between 5.72 and 5.73 so I'm led to believe there's a small chance this is 40% silver clad. I may have misunderstood something though. I wont get my hopes up yet. (edit: I think it may be important to note, every other bicentennial querter I weighed on this scale was between 5.50g and 5.61g)  Edited by Dcjbiggie
09/08/2022 01:11 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First glance, it looks regular clad. Can you add a photo of the edge?
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New Member
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Yes I will take a pic asap. It does have the copper showing but I was under the impression a 40% silver piece would still have that. Maybe that's what I misunderstood. Is it possible for a regular clad bicentennial to be this heavy?
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New Member
United States
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sorry, I'm still new to all this so I thought the only difference was weight.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is an allowable Weight Tolerance for US coins, they don't all hit the target weight, which is 5.67 for quarters. Your coin is very close to the correct weight and is well within acceptable tolerance. Even a bit heavier would be perfectly normal. |
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Normal copper clad coin. John1  |
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United States
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Yes weight is an important characteristic to check, but not the only one. Here is a link to an earlier thread with much the same question as yours: http://goccf.com/t/377472"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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Here is the weight chart with also the tolerance levels for each denomination. (Only gold coins are weighted at the mint for exact weight)  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The Silver clad bi-centenary was only in San Francisco and no connection with Phil Mint for coins rolls. In any way the S rolls could be find in Denver and Philadelphia. For the knowledge: The rolls are approve with an + or - .05 tolerance.
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New Member
United States
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got it! thanks guys! I think the problem was that I saw somewhere that the actual 40% silver (S) once were 5.75?g and I thought that was the only difference. still learning. for example I figured the difference was the "40% silver" part was the "shiny" part so I was expecting to see "copper/silver" on the rim and don't remotely have the eye for it yet. maybe I should buy a silver coin so I can compare the metals. god knows I'm not finding any. lol
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Good luck in your search for the silvers.
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