Odd -1969 quarter
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Hello there- I have this odd 1969 quarter. It is darker than the photos show -please excuse my amateur attempts at photography. The edge is not reeded and it weighs 26.3 grams which is very light-I have weighed another clad quarter and it weighs 28.3 grams. It also is slightly thicker than a regular quarter and very slightly smaller in diameter. Is this a mint error? Wrong planchet? Post mint damage of some kind? OR ??? Any and all comments are appreciated as always-And thanks in advance. I finally looked it over after the snack machines kept rejecting it. I don't think that it is a counterfeit but it could be I guess. 
Thanks, Bob
Thanks, Bob
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<< <i>It looks like a cast counterfeit to me. >>
<< <i>It looks like a cast counterfeit to me. >>
agree. It's hard to believe anyone would bother to counterfeit such a low value coin.
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The dark color could be exposure to a fire - fire could explain the loss in mass due to surficial metal removal (we're talking just <8% loss in mass, so it's not too significant).
Your bottom photo of the cropped "third side" is misleading since your cropping is wavy and distracts from how level the coin really is (and the pixels aren't helping either!).
The couple of 1960's counterfeit Washington Quarters I own do not look as good as this one.
So, my conclusion is some sort of PMD on an authentic quarter
<< <i>I have never seen a quarter that weighs anywhere even close to 26 grams. Get a new scale. >>
LOL-you're right. The scale is Ok. I just don't know what setting it is on--maybe it is grains? I changed the mode on the scale - It weighs 5.25 grams vs. 5.65 for a regular quarter.
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<< <i>My guess is someone tapped the edge down, in manner similar to when a half dollar is made into a ring, which is why it has no reeding and appears to be thicker than normal. >>
Wouldn't heavy use in casino slot machines have the same effect?
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The name is LEE!
it's been heated, and tapped on the edge, for
whatever purpose we'll never know.
I tell folks all the time "you can't believe what
people will do to their coins for fun, or out of
bordom"
In the 1960's, there was talk in numismatic circles about the possibility that clad quarters would be counterfeited. At the time, a quarter was worth about $2.00 in today's money. Considering that nickels were counterfeited in the 1940's, I think it's possible that some counterfeit quarters were produced during the early years of clad coinage.
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<< <i>It looks like a cast counterfeit to me. >>
it does to me to but why counterfit modern carp like that?
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<< <i>It looks like a cast counterfeit to me. >>
it does to me to but why counterfit modern carp like that? >>
Ask Mr. Henning who made all those nickels.
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I'm not sayin' they wouldn't, but it just seems odd, that's all.
<< <i>Why would somebody make a clad coin ring, instead of just using a silver coin from a few years earlier?
I'm not sayin' they wouldn't, but it just seems odd, that's all. >>
Good point. The only explaination that makes sense is that it spent time being used in a casino with slot machines which will peen the edges of coins over time.
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<< <i>Why would somebody make a clad coin ring, instead of just using a silver coin from a few years earlier?
I'm not sayin' they wouldn't, but it just seems odd, that's all. >>
When I was a kid a loooooong time ago, my friends and I would "spoon" the edge of quarter and make a ring out of them. This coin your showing looks to me as someone started this process and then stopped maybe realizing it was clad...Just a thought....