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Clad quarter missing outer layer?

What do you make of this? Do clad coins have a solid copper core? Is it possible for someone to have removed the outer layer or did it come from the mint this way?

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    commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,099 ✭✭✭
    Ex-fire.

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    fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    There is a chance someone copper plated it, too.

    The strike should be weaker if the outer layer are truly missing.

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    BeeManBeeMan Posts: 365 ✭✭✭
    I scraped the edge of the rim. It has been plated.
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    It's not missing its clad layers, although it could be an improperly annealed coin. I'd need to see it in person to say for sure what's going on.

    Jon
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,555 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>There is a chance someone copper plated it, too.

    The strike should be weaker if the outer layer are truly missing. >>


    How would striking a planchet without a clad layer make the strike any weaker? Looks like a coin struck on a copper planchet.

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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>There is a chance someone copper plated it, too.

    The strike should be weaker if the outer layer are truly missing. >>


    How would striking a planchet without a clad layer make the strike any weaker? Looks like a coin struck on a copper planchet. >>



    If the outer layer is missing then the planchet is underthickness leading to a weak strike. --Jerry

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