Need some opinions on a clad quarter error
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A standard clad quarter weighs 5.67 grams. This 70-D weighs 4.21 grams. It's thinner than a regular quarter and is weakly struck around the rim. It's also slightly smaller in diameter. Is it just maybe an irregular clad planchet? Or struck on a wrong stock? It's not a dime planchet because a clad dime weighs 2.27 grams. Any theories? Here's some pics:
The last pic is a regular clad quarter next to the coin in question:
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Perhaps an end of strip planchet that then became a dryer coin? Was the mint striking any coins foreign or domestic that would fit the parameters of slightly smaller and lighter than a clad quarter?
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This is a classic among error coins. Struck on dime thickness (dime stock) planchet.
Essentially it is the same diameter as a quarter, but as thin as a dime.
How could it be a dime planchet at that weight?
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Great question. I was wondering how a dime planchet ended up weighing more than a dime but less than a quarter.
Not a dime planchet - a quarter planchet punched from dime-thickness stock.
I's a quarter planchet on dime stock.
So the Mint rec'd quarter planchets that were errors from the company producing the blanks?
They produced their own planchets. The punched quarter planchets out of dime (thickness) strips (stock).
This type of error happened for quarters of other dates, too, but the 1970-D is the most abundant and well-known.
Ok thanks, I was not getting that initially, makes more sense now.
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Thank you for the explanation!! That explains it perfectly!
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