1967 Flat washington quarter?

This is the first time I've run across anything like this. And I am pretty new to coining. Or what ever title that is given. Any who It is a 1967 washington. appears to be copper. At first I thought somebody took a peice of copper layed it over a quarter. But both sides are raised like a regular coin. The diameter is the same as a quarter without the rim. Not sure what it is or how it was made any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks....

 

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Anyway you can weigh the coin?

 

Not at the moment. I can weigh it tomorrow. What are you thinking?
By the way love your picture. West Virginian here.

 

Nickel clad got somehow removed from both reverse and obverse, so what is left is a deformed ugly copper core?

 

make sense.

 

What do you mean by "Flat"?

 

like 24 gauge copper. ANd you can see a light reeded edge. Eventhough the coin/copper i have is the size of a quarter minus the rim.

 

Struck on a penny planchet?

 

That may be... Guess when I weigh it I will find out

 

It sure is a interesting piece

 

The clad layers were dissolved in acid.

 

I agree. And something about it just looks odd. I figure somebody cut off the rims then dipped in in acid.
A poor job at making a fake quarter-on-penny-planchet. jmo of course.
Can you get us a pic/extremely good description of the rim?

 

Well the rim is there but not very pronounced. By sight you can see lines but no real ridges. By touch you can lightly feel them. This is the best I can do with the picture with equipement I have here.

 

Hmm...interesting. It does seem as though someone was trying to fake a wrong planchet error out of a real quarter bydissolving off the surface in acid, thus getting a cent-like copper color and a wrong planchet-like thickness. The part that made them give up, of course, was getting it the right size and shape to make it look like an error. (let's not forget getting the reeding off of the edge!)

 

the reeding is there just very very light. But I don't know much at all about coins. This one had been in a box mixed with other coins since somewhere around the late seventies

 

The fact that the detail is so well struck up on such an incredibly thin planchet is the key that it is a acid soaked coin. If you actually struck a planchet that thin there is no way you would get that much detail.

Then you have the reeding even though the coin is obviously smaller in diameter than a regular quarter. The reeding is created by the forcing of the metal against the collar during striking, so to be reeded it had to at one time be the same diameter as a quarter. As the acid attacked the edge and reduced the diameter it reduced it evenly so the pattern of the reeds was preserved.

 

Sounds plausible, Conder -- I feel a science project coming on.

 

I'm not sure about the reeding on the coin,but being exposed to moisture for a long period of time will pretty much achieve the same results.
I'm not saying this is what happen to the coin its just another opinion.

 

We have one local coin guy. But....I hate to deal with him. Really can't even say hello to him. I may stop in to see him. He does know his stuff. Well at least he has been in business for years and years.

 

Oh. I weighed the penny today. It weighs 3.1 grams.