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This quarter looks silver but is not.

TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
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As seen: no copper is evident. It weighs the same as the clad.


Brought into the shop by a young collector, today. ( might it be counterfeit or fake ? ). And why?

Found by an avid roll searcher.

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Possibly from a silver mint set and somehow made it in to circulation?

  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bolivarshagnasty said:
    Possibly from a silver mint set and somehow made it in to circulation?

    Wouldn't the weight be different from a clad example?

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @relicsncoins said:

    @bolivarshagnasty said:
    Possibly from a silver mint set and somehow made it in to circulation?

    Wouldn't the weight be different from a clad example?

    Don’t know.

  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    5.67 grams clad vs 6.30 grams silver
    The was no business strike silver issued according to Coinfacts.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jdimmick said:
    This is probably one of those aftermarket platinum plated quarters. I bust all that stuff up and roll it up and carry to the bank weekly.

    Suppose you could scratch between the reeds on the edge to see if it is plated.. or use a spectrograph...

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s been plated

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  • dan_marinellidan_marinelli Posts: 195 ✭✭✭

    Does it ring like silver or clad?

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  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Common plated coin. ;)

    Here is a few I found looking for W's.

  • Dominic_WarnerDominic_Warner Posts: 3 ✭

    Yeah silver plated.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Silver plate, no big deal

  • OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why would anyone bother to plate quarters? I found one of these last week, 2005, I thought it was silver too, but now after weighing it I see it's just plated clad.

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 7, 2021 3:47AM

    @Onastone said:
    Why would anyone bother to plate quarters? I found one of these last week, 2005, I thought it was silver too, but now after weighing it I see it's just plated clad.

    They used to sell five coin year sets. Silver, gold or platinum plated. With ads in magazines and papers, they caught a lot of fish.

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  • MarkKelleyMarkKelley Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a handful of them myself. Really tics me off when I'm CRH-ing for silver.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have found three in change....I knew they were not silver, but sure looked like it at first. Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Plated!

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thebeav said:

    @Onastone said:
    Why would anyone bother to plate quarters? I found one of these last week, 2005, I thought it was silver too, but now after weighing it I see it's just plated clad.

    They used to sell five coin year sets. Silver, gold or platinum plated. With ads in magazines and papers, they caught a lot of fish.

    I think I even had a rhodium plated set. I think I've got two full sets of gold plated state quarters in cherry cases. I would have dumped them in a CoinStar but the gold plated ones get rejected.

  • WQuarterFreddieWQuarterFreddie Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have found many clad quarters and they do trick you at first thinking you found silver. I stopped saving them and just "throw them back".

    The gold plated are the more rare but I have found a couple. They look to cool to throw back!

  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,702 ✭✭✭✭✭

    any plated coin gets used as change by me as i see them they are just junk coins

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks all. I forgot about those aftermarket plated coins.

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