Standing Liberty Quarter, what is this?

YogiBerraFan · April 14, 2010 5:01AM

Looks like it is bronze.

gonzer · April 14, 2010 5:34AM

More like Bronze Age.

rld14 · April 14, 2010 5:35AM

Quite possibly a contemporary counterfeit that saw some time in the ground, I have a couple of badly corroded SLQs and they look nothing like that.

Billet7 · April 14, 2010 6:43AM

Looks like someone dug it up, and tried to clean it with bleach (which incidently doesn't turn them white, it makes them dull gray and brown.) Just a guess.

YogiBerraFan · April 14, 2010 7:20AM

These photos show what it really looks like. I had to use the camera flash in the first set of photos. Why would this have been struck on bronze? Not much money in making fake quarters back in the day and nobody would have taken a bronze quarter anyway.

tahoe98 · April 14, 2010 7:33AM

...almost resembles a capped die.

YogiBerraFan · April 17, 2010 4:15AM

Anyone else have a comment as to what this might be? Is there anyone at PCGS that could help or do they not do that?

If nobody knows what this is pick an option from below:

1. throw it in the junk box

2. save as a conversation piece

3. list on eBay and see if anyone is willing to pay anything for it

4. bury it in the backyard and let it be the problem of whoever finds it one day

5. find a guy that just has to have it and trade it for a gold coin (won't hold my breath)

6. (insert your creative option here)

TomB · April 17, 2010 4:21AM

My guess would be a contemporary counterfeit with the German silver wash removed. Contrary to the thought that it wasn't worth counterfeiting a quarter back in the depression; there was good buying power in a quarter and I have seen fakes of SLQs before.

YogiBerraFan · April 17, 2010 4:29AM

<< <i>Contrary to the thought that it wasn't worth counterfeiting a quarter back in the depression; there was good buying power in a quarter and I have seen fakes of SLQs before. >>

I have so much to learn. I read up on coins each day until I just cannot comprehend any more. There is so much to read I feel like I am getting nowhere fast!

rld14 · April 17, 2010 5:54AM

<< <i>My guess would be a contemporary counterfeit with the German silver wash removed. Contrary to the thought that it wasn't worth counterfeiting a quarter back in the depression; there was good buying power in a quarter and I have seen fakes of SLQs before. >>

Exactly! Remember that, adjusted for inflation, a quarter during the depression had roughly the buying power of, oh, $5 or so does today. This coin circulated when a new Ford sedan was less than $1,000. Heck, a Cadillac back then was about $2,000.

So this is why you see a lot of depression-era counterfeits of quarters and halves.