Need help with off metal Washington Quarter

mrcommem

A customer brought this coin into my pharmacy today and asked if it was a fake. Here are the specifications:
Weight=3.8gm
Size=same as standard Washington Quarter
Reeding=present but weak and not always verticle to coin, no copper, silver color
Condition=Heavily worn
Date=1965
Lustre-none
Ring-flat






It looks to me that this coin might even be a casting although I don't see and ridges around the coin. The coin is pretty beat up and some severe dents and gashes, some filing along the edges.

Anybody have any idea what this is?

cladking

May be counterfeit.


There aren't a lot of these around but at least one is dated 1965.

Broadstruck

Doesn't look off metal... just looks like it had a rough paper route.

DUIGUY

<< <i>Doesn't look off metal... just looks like it had a rough paper route. >>




AAH! The good ole days!!!

percyb

<< <i>May be counterfeit.


There aren't a lot of these around but at least one is dated 1965. >>



The 1960s were tough on a lot of us and this coin as well.

MWallace

See if you can write with it. If so, it's probably made of lead. I have come across counterfeit quarters made of lead that look similar to this.

CaptHenway

There were a lot of counterfeit quarters made in Vietnam during the war. The theory is that the locals were making them to spend at the PX. This looks like one of them.
TD

ProofArtworkonCircs

<<Weight=3.8gm
Size=same as standard Washington Quarter>>

Your coin looks a bit like lead, but it is lighter than the official weight of 5.67 grams.
I would expect lead to be even heavier than that.