1942-D DDO / DDR Washington Quarter Unpublished Error

Looks also that the mint mark is doubled the same. Another would not happen on a real coin.

If he's so cocky, ask him to put his money where his mouth is and pay for the grading if it comes back fake. Then you've got nothing to lose.

Those kind of comments aren't going to help the OP no matter how many experts weigh in..after all, the OP doesn't know the players on here.

I just got done weighing over 4000 pre 64 quarters. Yes they do vary in weight, usually its the well worn ones. But to weigh 1.5 grams under would mean the coin had so much wear you could hardly tell its a Washington quarter.

Its probably fake or your scale is off (most peoples scales are way off) I am curious to see what happened when you sent it in to pcgs for a grading.

1. The coin is a struck counterfeit. It is way outside Weight Tolerance, it has very common markers common to counterfeit coins (pitting, etc), and is apparently doubled enough that it couldn't possibly go unnoticed for this amount of time. If this coin were real (which it cannot be) it would shadow the most famous doubled dies known.

2. Sending a coin like this in for "verification" will prove it is fake...but that much is obvious already. If you must waste your money sending it in - by all means do so. I can tell you ahead of time that no verifiable grading service would holder this coin as genuine.

3. It is fake, but it is a neat fake. Even being a counterfeit, it has value, and the fact that both sides are extreme doubled dies make it all the more interesting. I would not be surprised if someone with deep pockets who collects counterfeit coins wouldn't offer $200 or more for this piece.

Good luck with this piece - it's not "junk" but it's also not a real coin, and the slabbing services will do you NO good except to take your money and tell you the same thing you have heard here already. I would suggest trying to get in touch with either Bill Fivaz, author of earlier editions the CherryPickers' Guide or J. P. Martin, an avid collector of counterfeit pieces and professional grader. Either one of those guys would be able to head you in the right direction for a buyer at the right price if they were not interested in the piece themselves.

Question: Could a "rolled thin planchet " be that much under weight? I do not think that is what we have here, just wondering.

Thanks for all the information. I have just been sitting on this coin and doing as much research as I can from time to time when I think about it. However, what also intrigue me is , has anyone ever seen another one like it? To be counterfeit would one think that there would be more very similar varieties known? On the web, listed somewhere? There would be no purpose to spend the time and effort just to make one quarter even back then a person would make more than one. I will try to weigh it on a different scale to see if there is a difference. Also remember this coin was in a 2x2 and looked like it was for a long time, it was not found in my pocket change.