1970 D Quarter struck on dime stock?

You know what you got nice find. Congrats
One of these days something like this will happen to me.

 

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You're on a date and logged into the coin forum? That's what I call "dedicated." lol. I can't do that with my wife home. When she catches me, she says "You'd rather talk to those people about coins than spend time with me?" haha. I just respond by saying, "I'm working on our retirement plan honey." All jokes aside, thank you for the response and would like to see your latest acquisition.

 

Electron John??

 

You're Doing It Wrong.

 

Guys.. she is very understanding of my hobby!
She would rather that I be responding to CoinTalk threads than secretly texting another woman! .. which I would never do

 

Here it is.. See on you Quarter there is a weak strike on the top of LIBERTY and the bottom of the Date. These are the characteristics of Struck on wrong stock.

 

Dang, hope you have something

 

Are you sure none of us on this thread are women?

 

A couple of years ago, I posted Lonesome John's classic table of expected weights of coins struck on wrong stock. I find it invaluable.

Here it is:


FWIW John's calculation for a clad quarter on dime stock is 4.16 gr.

 

Lonesome John? Lonesome? Because he spent to much time on CT while on dates?

 

Great chart!
That's close to the Quarter in question.
Of my 3 certified Quarters on Dime stock, 2 are 4.2 Grams and 1 is 4.3 Grams

 

A new member here with XRF technology. I don't know how to copy and paste well enough. Maybe someone can do that for you?

 

Thanks everyone for the responses. Nice to finally label this coin correctly.

 

tommyc03 You know most members don't think about that. I have read at the factory where they make the stock material. They intensely cut off the first three or 4 feet of the beginnings of a rolle and the ends of a roll. So they do not have this inconsistency. But sometimes I guess they just don't cut off enough.

 

paddyman98 Glad I got my rubber boots on it's getting pretty deep. lol

 

I don't know I've barely pass math. But in my occupation the only time I had weight consideration is when ordering As Vault. But by the calculations I see that you're displaying. Where did all the extra weight come from on these certified dime planchet quarters.? I know I'm lacking in a lot of things. But common sense and the numbers you're displaying does not measure up to dine stock quarter. I'm more inclined to believe it's the end of the run stock on the five sent planchet. Common sense tells you that it can lose weight. That's why at the factory they like cutting the ends of the rolls, so they can have a more consistent weight with the rest of the roll.I know I can see it. But I don't have to believe it. Someone is going to have to explain to me where the extra weight in the dime stock material comes from.

 

According to the chart, a quarter struck from dime stock should weigh 4.16g; 4.2g is plenty close enough. A .04-g discrepancy is well within tolerance; in fact, if they print it that way on the slab, it implies that they only weighed it to the nearest tenth of a gram, in which case it's exactly right (for that level of precision).

A quarter struck from nickel stock would weigh 6.54g, well over the normal 5.75g. It would also be a super-bold strike, because nickel stock is thicker than quarter stock. (Not sure of the exact measurements, but the standard thickness of a finished coin is 1.95mm for nickels, 1.75mm for quarters; I'd expect the stock to be proportional.)

Wearing such a quarter down enough to lose over a third of its weight would take it down to a featureless slug. The flattest, slickest Barber dime I've ever weighed hadn't lost more than 20% of its weight.

 

Not Dime planchet but Dime stock. The Dime stock sheet was fed into the cutting press to make Quarter blanks. So they are Quarter sized planchets from Dime stock so thats why it's heavier.

 

I think @paddyman98 can handle his date without assistance. Lol.

 

I just love simple understandable explanations.paddyman98 Thank you very much. For some reason I had it in my head that quarter was stuck on a dime planchet. Dyslexia seems to do that to you sometimes. Again thanks. USMC60Just a thought. What if it was a nickel planchet not stock.?