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Thought I had another silver quarter :(

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
Did my monthly search of my apartment's laundry till. Just a quick search, looking for anything out of the ordinary or silver. Thought I had something in the first handful...

Can you pick it out of the edges? Heart skipped a beat, thought I had another silver quarter:
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Nope. It's a squeaker: A New Zealand ten cent coin. 23.62 mm @ 5.66 grams vs. the statehood quarter's 24.3 mm @5.67 grams. Talk about a close match!


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Comments

  • cool coin. i'd rather find that than a circulated washington silver.
    very nice.
  • .....I don't think I've found a silver quarter in 18 months and I see a lot of coins,....It still gets you going.......image
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    hmm well, to me, i knew it was foreign by the fine(er) reeded edge, and it looks smaller in diameter...
    a real eye catcher though, yes. image
  • atarianatarian Posts: 3,116
    last find of silver quarters really was easter 05. 16 quarters in all. in oradell in sept i found a AG03 1939 25C and a G4 to G6 1944 25C


    thats about all nothing else
    Founder of the NDCCA. *WAM Count : 025. *NDCCA Database Count : 2,610. *You suck 6/24/10. <3 In memory of Tiggar 5/21/1994 - 5/28/2010 <3
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  • i was carrying around a silver quarter i found early one morning after going to 7-11. snagged 8 quarters from my piggy bank to do some laundry a couple hours later.

    thunk thunk thunk thunk. 4 quarters in to do the first load.

    thunk thunk thunk

    *scratches head*

    wait a minute.... 2 quarters in my pocket...

    *quickly reads dates on quarters*

    *smacks self in head*


    sorry if that was a little dramatic.... =P

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