1965 Washington Quarter with unusual ring

I have come across a few 65 Washington quarters over the years that has had an unusual ring when the coin is dropped on a hard surface and I have no clue why it does this. It has a ring kinda like a silver quarter has but as we all know they stopped producing silver quarters in 64 with a very few known silver quarter mistakenly struck in 65 but this quarter has a copper edge. I have tried looking this up and seen a few things others have said but I havent found an answer to why it has the silver ring sound. Did the US mint play around with clad mixtures and possibly why it has the ring it has? I took a few pictures and you can see there is nothing out of the ordinary with it. I am ordering a scale and will weigh it when it is delivered

 

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Looks normal to me

 

uhhg yes it does look normal.

 

Please let us know what it weighs.

 

Possibly struck a touch off center but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Concur with the rest, especially since you can see the copper, but let us know what it weighs.

 

Heck, I had a quarter out of a '65 SMS that I swore was silver. You could not see any clad layer at all. When I finally did weigh it the result was...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Not silver.

 

Yeah, what they said, unusual ring.... not so much, unusual weight... 6.25 grams, now we are talking.

 

Most folks do know this but for those who don't, it is not exactly true that they stopped producing silver quarters in 1964. The fact is they made them all the way up until 1966 but they still were struck with the 1964 date. The mint was making both clad and silver quarters during that period, which most likley accounts for the handful of '65 quarters that were struck on silver planchets.

 

the quarter looks normal to me... I have a few 1965

 

You realize that differences in annealing - surface hardness - can have a bearing on ring tone, right? It escapes me why people bounce collectible coins off of hard surfaces as some sort of "authenticity" test, and expect relevant results.

 

All true, but I can recognize the ring of a silver quarter from across the room and have proved it to family several times

 

yes I know that a coin will sound different on different surfaces but I meant I took 2 of same year dropped them on same surface and one had a high pitch ring similar to a silver coin. And as far people doing that to collectable coins the last I checked 65 isn't a collectable quarter

 

Ok I'll try to explain a little better. I know this coin isn't silver and the coin looks normal in every way but if you take that coin and another from the same year drop it on same surface one has a higher pitch ring similar to a silver coin when it is dropped. My question is did the mint have different metal compositions for that year to see which would be best for the clad coinage. I still haven't got my scales so no weight yet.

 

I don't doubt your ear. It's just my thinking that acceptable production tolerances might be capable of causing the pitch difference you hear. It'd still be different from a Dime or a Quarter-sized non-coin, so you'd know.

 

The "ring" looks like rolling damage to me. PMD

 

rolling damage? How does the question "did the mint" become this

 

Do 40% Kennedy halves show copper edge? Is it possible that the mint punched out planchet from a sheet meant for half dollars? Just thinking out loud here, well you know what I mean..

 

I thought you were talking about the grooved ring on the reverse, which is caused by rolling damage. I now realize that it seems as though you are talking about the tone it makes when it is dropped though. Sorry for the confusion about your post. The coin seems normal to me.

 

heck I didnt even see the "ring" on the reverse and yes I was referring to the sound the coin made.