What is this quarter. That is completely copper it weighs 5.5g
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ricko
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It could be a missing clad layer... would need to examine in hand, but the weight seems to indicate the loss of the outer layers. Cheers, RickO
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I would guess a missing clad. I have one similar to yours. On mine you can see small areas that still have some clad left.
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I found one with worn red finger nail polish. My local dealer says it's worthless. Do you disagree?
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Both quarters are PMD IMO.
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Metal detector find. Buried clad will often turn reddish-orange.
100-1 what they said. Copper quarters don't escape into the wild and go unnoticed for 50 years.
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It could be a beach found coin. My wife found some a few years ago with a metal detector on a beach that looked like that but most were worn more than that.
Yes. It's worth 25c, assuming it's a quarter you're talking about.
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Yes.
It was a nickel although I've heard the same thing happens with quarters. Someone told me once it was applied on vending quarters used in pinball machines.
PMD will not increase a coins value... nail polish on coins is not uncommon - though I have no idea why it is done... Cheers, RickO
The owners of Juke boxes give painted coins to the owners of locations so they can keep the music going.
That makes patrons put coins in.
When the jukebox guy picks up the coins, he gives the painted ones back to do it all over again.
Sounds like an arcade quarter from back in the day for complimentary games.
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I don't know do u think it could be missing clad layer?
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looks like somebody needed fifty cents for a purchase but only had a quarter and a pocket knife
It's not missing the outer clad layer.
It's a environmentally damaged coin.
Old copper plating, imo. Corrosion would
show up differently on the surfaces.
I can see some of the copper coming off
the rims of the quarter.
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It's highly unlikely someone would copper plate a quarter. This looks like a couple of the quarters that I've found at the beach.
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Not looking at the date this was posted, as thousands of old threads go, Ricko was the first to reply! Bless his soul.