Hi, i am new to this forum, and literally have no idea what im doing. I dont know much about coins at all but i cam acrossed a California State Quarter that is missing the clad on the tails side. My local coin shop offered me $40.00 and i was curious to know if this was a good deal. i ended up keeping it for now because i thought it was just neat. anyways, any advice or knowledge or anything about missing clad coins is much appreciated. Thank you! And sorry this is old news and probably 100000 dead threads by now.... Oh, and the man at the coin shop weighed it infront of me to make sure, and it was 4.7g. If that helps... here is a photo if that helps... Oh i found some more posts similar on here, Sorry for posting a new forum just for this. please forgive me.
Fred Weinberg is a dealer in error coins. He has two certified Washington Quarters (not State Quarters) on his site missing the obverse clad layer. He is asking $125 for one and $150 for the other. Both are certified and graded MS64. So, the $40 you were offered doesn't sound like that good of a deal. By the way, I have a 2001-D Kennedy half dollar missing the reverse clad layer. It came from a Mint bag and I found it at about the same time another person found the same error. I certified mine and kept it, and the other fellow sold his on eBay in 2005 for $555. Chris
Stop apologizing! Its a cool coin. I don't know much on the value, but it appears that the coin likely should not have left the mint to begin with. Since '03 mint procedures have been such that oddities, mis-strikes, and the like usually don't see the light of day. I'd hang on to it, but that's just me.
Well, yes and no! There is no way the employees can physically inspect every single circulation strike. If a coin happens to land with the missing clad layer facing down, it WILL get missed. Chris
