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Partially clad quarter...real deal?

KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

Thoughts please and thank you!
Came out of a customer roll last night...

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  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fully clad. Just dirty.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2022 9:56AM

    @jonathanb said:
    Fully clad. Just dirty.

    Appreciate the guess...but that's definitely not it. That's copper showing.

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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Slightly better images, after a couple minutes in xylenes

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Weigh it. A partial clad quarter would weigh less than a normal quarter.

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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:
    Weigh it. A partial clad quarter would weigh less than a normal quarter.

    Actually it's slightly heavy @ 5.70 grams

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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2022 10:28AM


    This quarter was dirty. I let it soak in acetone; after pics.

    What puts a brown stain on nickel? (I want to know why it makes me richer, not how much.)

    (I also practice my photography of coins. iPad Pro, using the app—Macro Mode—)

  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With all the harsh scratches on that, not wondering if it was whizzed down to the copper.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2022 10:54AM

    @Fraz said:
    This quarter was dirty. I let it soak in acetone; after pics.

    What puts a brown stain on nickel? (I want to know why it makes me richer, not how much.)

    (I also practice my photography of coins. iPad Pro, using the app—Macro Mode—)

    Ok...Xylenes done, acetone next. It's in...

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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2022 10:59AM

    @bsshog40 said:
    With all the harsh scratches on that, not wondering if it was whizzed down to the copper.

    Those fine lines are dead straight vertically on both sides.
    And the lines are thoroughly in the recesses as well, as if they were on the planchet before striking.
    What's throwing me off is that based on exactly your sort of assumption (which was mine too) I'm seeing areas where I would expect to see wear but I don't, and vice versa. Also the little missed areas and areas completely free of clad.

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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2022 4:24PM

    @Kurisu said:

    Ok...Xylenes done, acetone next. It's in...

    Nifty answer. Buzz words, double ellipses, and useless.
    Edit: At first I did not understand this reply.

  • CoffeeTimeCoffeeTime Posts: 117 ✭✭✭

    from the photos, it looks like it was pressed into a planchet that already had that scoring on it.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Discolored – not missing any of the obv clad layer, given the weight listed

    Environmentally damaged surfaces

    Thank you kindly!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love the "student" aspect of learning about these coins. Than the teacher supplying the answers!
    Thanks Fred.
    ;)

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  • Cranium_Basher73Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like it spent some time in a parking lot.

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The expert has given us the answer. I do not know how the discoloration occurred though... Cheers, RickO

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