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New Member
United States
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1965 silver quarter? No copper showing on edge or seen in nick on edge. Weighs 6.7 grams. Has a strange age patina color, more like nickel or steel. Any information on this? I'll have to find a camera with a macro setting. Sorry.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
WOW! A different Chuckster than the one we usually see?
Images a must!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1150 Posts |
Please post pics...
It isn't unheard of for some silver dime and quarter planchets to have made it between some 1965 dies.
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Valued Member
United States
364 Posts |
Pictures ASAP, unless you want this thread to turn into a flame war.
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New Member
 United States
7 Posts |
Right, I'm just plain chuckster, new to the community. I'll try to get a photo posted by the end of the weekend. Standby.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
First of all  To Whacky World If your weight is correct it even weighs half a gram more than an Unc. silver quarter. Curious myself to see what it looks like. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by chuckster 125
06/04/2011 12:45 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2738 Posts |
A silver quarter should weigh 6.25 grams. Yours is way too heavy. It might be a circulating counterfeit.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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You might as well show them the tissue test when you take the pix, because if you don't, that's the next thing they'll ask for. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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biggfredd: Let me be the first of "THEY'LL ASK"! We want the " tissue test"!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What is the tissue test? Probably one of the cheapest tests you can do at home. How is it done, get a facial tissue and pull the two layers apart till you have one layer. Then take a coin that you know is silver (PRE 1964 dimes, quarters or halves) and place both coin under the single layer of tissue. If you see the coins the same color, then they are both silver (unless tarnished heavily). If they are different compositions, it will look like this:  If they are both the same color they might both be silver. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If it is a counterfit, it may be a cast coin. A cast coin may appear grainey in appearance:  They usually last detail where the fields and the devices meet:  The texture coin may have devices even altered:  Cast coins have a grainey appearance and the reeding is usually added to them and looks fake and uneven. Hope this helps? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
Soak it in some TarnX for a minute. (read the label)
Then rinse it off. You'll know if it was silver to begin with
pretty quick. Any dirt/coating on silver will come off. If it
just looks worse after the soak it was not silver to begin with.
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New Member
United States
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Thank you all for the info on my 1965 silver(?) quarter, especially Coop for the images of fakes. I think I may have a sand cast fake as it it very similar to the images. The tissue test doesn't work as the quarter in question is tarnished very dark. I'll try the Tarn-X next. Stay tuned. Thanks. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I better add this. Do not soak any coin in tarnX that you deem to be of any value. I know some people/dealers may use this or another dip to touch up some silver coins. Not recommended. Now I am hoping that this OP's coin is not silver. Or I'm in trouble  |
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Posted 06/03/2011 8:49 pm
