:thumb:Here is the newest addition to my collection. It is a copper quarter. It weighs 3.07 grams and shows copper exclusively on obverse, reverse, and edge. There is no cladding on this puppy because it was issued before clad coinage & it has not been plated. It is struck on a planchet originally intended for a 1964 copper cent. I really like off-metal quarters & quarters that are missing one or more of their clad layers. Collectors & non-collectors quickly see that something is wrong with the coin and they make for good conversation. I own several quarters that are brown & red in color. Most of these are missing clad layers, struck on a foreign planchet, or otherwise sintered with copper to give the coin(s) their unusual color. I will post photos of these other copper-colored quarters in a few moments. Thanks for letting me share the new addition.
A quarter might be struck (in error) on just about anything that might fit through the feeding mechanism of the quarter press. Anything larger than a quarter planchet would not fit through the machine’s feeder mechanism. Therefore, it would not be possible for a quarter to be struck on a large sized planchet intended to strike a dollar or a half dollar. It is possible to strike the quarter on nickel, dime, and cent planchets because these planchets are smaller than the quarter planchet. Here is an example of a quarter struck on a nickel planchet. Also attached is an example of a quarter struck on a foriegn planchet. This planchet was originally intended to make a Brass Philippine 5 Sentimos coin. If you have other examples, please post them.
These quarters were struck on clad planchets where one or more of the clad layers was missing before the strike.
This is an example of a 1988 Quarter struck on a sintered planchet. This planchet probably took-on its copper color while it was being anealed (before the strike).
My new quarter (on cent planchet) is dated 1964. A silver quarter dated 1965 would be a transitional error. A transitional error occurs when the planchet or coin from one year finds its way into the coining press in a later year. These transitional errors are quite rare and you will find them occasionally in the hands of collectors. What would you call a 1964 quarter that is struck on a clad planchet? Would it be a transitional error or would it be a pattern coin?
Those are awesome coins you have there! I have yet to come across anything like that in my price range, but thanks to you, I can at least see some.
Thank you for all the complements. Here is one more quarter which I keep in this collection. It is a 1974 quarter struck on a cent planchet graded NGC MS65 Brown. One of the coolest exhibits I've seen at a FUN show included a couple cent planchets that were struck in a quarter press. (Those are the only two coins in the exhibit) The mint was making Bicentennial quarters when these two cent planchets made it into the machine. Both cent planchets were struck in one strike. It is an awesome error. I'll search around the Internet & see if I can find a photo of it. All my quarter coins pale in comparison.
Wow! I'm not really into errors much, but I love those "off-metal" ones. Thanks for posting, and I hope you find a pic of that two cent planchets error you described.
I searched around the Internet but couldn't find it. The two cents were mated and struck as a 1976 quarter. They may have been chain struck. The coins were raw in the exhibit display. I saw the exhibit at FUN perhaps 3 or 4 years ago. Perhaps someone else at CT remembers the exhibit.
I see you are in Wisconsin. There is a great error coin shop in Madison Wisconsin called Jim's Coins. They hold monthly mail bids and they are on the Web.
I found a North Dakota quarter that looks almost the color of a dollar piece. Slightly lighter though. The "silver" layers are extremely thin and almost undetectable on the obverse half. I tried to get a scan but the color didn't come through. Reckon it could be a sintered planchet, or just some toning?
It would be nice to learn more about your coin. Are both sides of the coin this color? If both sides then it might be stained by something like soda pop. In this case, a soak in Acetone might remove the stain. It could be a sintered planchet error or toning. It would be nice to learn more about your coin. BTW, it is normal for clad layers to appear thin or thick when viewed from the edge of the struck coin.
The reverse is how my scanner is making it look. The obverse is as close to the actual color that I could get with the generic Windows picture viewer. This quarter is really nice looking too. I'm being extra careful how I handle it lol
It would be a transitional error. The clad composition patterns were struck using the Martha Washington/Mount Vernon designs. The 1964 quarters were struck during the same time as the 1965 clad quarters, transition period, so it would be a transition error.
Hello Jared46, So your quarter is one color on the obverse and normal on the reverse. That is really neat. You are wise to handle it carefully. I think you still need to make sure that the color is not just staining by doing a soak in Acetone. Maybe you could post your photos and description in the error forum at CT to get more opinions.
Collect89 No no it's the goldish color on both sides. I just edited the obverse scan's color to show how it appears to the eye and the reverse is an undoctored image scan.
