What do you experts think about this quarter?? http://cgi.ebay.com/US-COINS-LOTS-R...415QQihZ016QQcategoryZ524QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I'll bid 25 cents!!.....Looks to me like an old quarter that someone has sanded the edges off...error?.........yea right
Shouldn't you be seeing some copper left if it was sanded off? Plus you can't trust pics like that.....so I wouldn't bid.
Looks weird to me, not sure it worths anything.. but if he's right and it weights a lot less than a usual quarter and is made of another metal... what is according to me nearly not possible. :vanish:
Thats true B12, I guess there would be some copper showing. I certainly believe its been altered in some way, definitely not a result of over-circulation.
It also looks like someone already put some chop marks on the coin to see if it was authentic. I can't see why someone would do that but it appears like they may have.
Could it be an off-metal counterfeit? The "BE" in Liberty really looks like the top is cutoff under the rim, and I bet it'd be really hard to find a clad planchet to strike counterfeits on if that is what someone wanted to do, as opposed to a single metal slug.
I am somewhat agreeing with AgCollector that it might be a counterfeit. If you were to look at the words, they seemed to be unusally crooked, which can't be explained by mere wears.
It appears that the coin was struck on a Foreign coin planchet and not a Nickel planchet! If the coin was struck on a Nickel planchet, then the letters would be all the way to the rim and incomplete (missing much of the tops of the letters). If one knew the weights of Foreign coin planchets used by the U.S. Mints during this time period, then they might be able to identify one that matches the weight of the the quarter after considering a deduction of a few grains for wear. Frank
I have a feeling that this is not an error at all---either a fake or a joke someone is pulling.... Speedy
