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I found this quarter (center) with no copper core a couple weeks ago. It sure isn't silver as the one on the right. Under normal light it has the similar color as the average State Quarter (left), but when I took this picture it looks a little darker under this bright light.    Edited by Adam5
06/15/2010 10:59 pm
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Interesting.
Do you have a way to weigh it? That is going to be important.
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06/15/2010 11:04 pm
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99% it's been plated with something, and the rim was beaten in a little too. The late night 'collector' home shopping networks did all sorts of things to Statehood Quarters to make them "special" and "valuable" - basically all they did was ruin a few hundred thousand quarters and make people ask questions when they find them. |
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I like your answer, copper...it made me chuckle.
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I had a fellow worker that found a few of these and I asked to see one up close and used a razor blade to make a scratch through one of the reeding to reveal the copper core. It was just that, plated as I felt it was. I marked it over a certain letter without doing damage to the surface of the coin to show him what it was. So Chuck is probaby correct on the 99% of the time it is. Just one instance I've heard it was an orphan planchet.
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I was cracking up, too j_h_s!
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I haven't weighed it yet. I thought it seemed a little heavier.
I did take it to a coin shop a couple weeks ago. The dealer looked it over for a few minutes and said that it could have been stamped on a foreign planchet, or the core just does not appear visible. He mentioned that the rim looked a little higher than normal. I asked him if there was something with the reeded edge, but he said it seemed fairly normal. He mentioned that I could take a gamble and have it sent out to have the composition tested, or just leave it in my sock drawer for a while.
I'll post a bigger picture this evening.
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06/16/2010 09:08 am
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The dealer didn't weigh it? If he thought there was a chance it was on a foreign planchet, that should have been the first thing to do, rather than suggesting to spend money on specific gravity test.
I forgot all about the home shopping network and their plating fiascos, in all likelihood, that's what it is.
The weight is the only thing that can give the foreign planchet theory any hope.
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You don't need a scale, per se, just a ruler and a wooden pencil. Balance them (the coins, not the ruler and pencil).
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06/16/2010 09:32 am
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The dealer looked it over for a few minutes and said that it could have been stamped on a foreign planchet Sigh...another dealer who knows little to nothing about errors. The US Mint does not make coins for other countries any more so there would not be any foreign planchets floating around the Mint. He also should have weighed it instead of suggesting to send it out for an expensive composition analysis. |
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SO many dealers don't know squat about coins any more...it's depressing. They should be TAKING the classes WE teach.
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Coop,
I too have only heard of one being an "orphan planchet"!!!Thanks to Mr Diamond and His expertise!!
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you should take it back to that dealer and offer to sell it for $5. I bet he will take it. lol
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