How to quickly tell the difference between a clad and silver proof state quarter?

CyStater · January 28, 2014 1:32AM

Am I correct that the only way to quickly determine if a state quarter proof is silver or clad is to examine the edge to see if the core is copper or not?
Thanks.

SaorAlba · January 28, 2014 1:33AM

Silver has a "milky" colour - a little bit more blue.

Bankerbob56 · January 28, 2014 1:51AM

Lay a tissue over a clad coin and a silver coin, the silver coin shows through the tissue as white, the clad coin isnt visible much at all. Quick and easy.....

bigjpst · January 28, 2014 1:52AM

<< <i>Lay a tissue over a clad coin and a silver coin, the silver coin shows through the tissue as white, the clad coin isnt visible much at all. Quick and easy..... >>

+1

CyStater · January 28, 2014 1:54AM

Thanks for the quick responses. Would have been nice if the mint had just marked them differently.

kiyote · January 28, 2014 2:19AM

Silver also has a nice ring to it when dropped as opposed to a clunk.

kranky · January 28, 2014 4:04AM

I wonder if anyone ever set up at a dingy flea market and peddled clad proofs as silver proofs, claiming the mintmark stood for "silver".

<< <i>Silver also has a nice ring to it when dropped as opposed to a clunk. >>

They sound the same to me.

...do I have to take them out of the 2x2s first?

MsMorrisine · January 28, 2014 4:09AM

the silver versions can't be marked differently than the clad proofs apart from the mintmarks

it's not expressly stated in the law, but the law requires the coin sets to be made in proof and silver. There is an implication the coins stay the same. They could make them at WP and that would comply if they used a W mint mark.

How to quickly tell the difference between a clad and silver proof state quarter?

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