Newbie need help -Found something interesting today

Newbie need help -Found something interesting today *Updated with OK scans

Hello i am relitively new to collecting but i found something really interesting today and i need some help. I found a 1965 quarter it looks to me as if it is silver. By comparing it to two other same year quarters it is alot shiner and no copper rim around the edge. It even looks as if the silver has some toning to it. I know all pre 1965 quarters were silver but were there some silver 65's? Please help im really stumped here i have searched all over the internet for information!

 

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There is always a possibility that a leftover planchet from 1964 was in the hopper, and got struck in 1965, but the odds are pretty low.

Your first task, if you choose to accept it, is to weigh your coin (or take it to a jeweler or pharmacist and ask them to weigh it). If it weighs 6.25g, it will need to be submitted to an expert for authentication. If it weighs 5.67g, it's a clad coin on which the inner copper core is not showing.

Good luck.

(If you don't have an accurate enough scale, and don't want to ask a jeweler or pharmacist to weigh it, you can always use a "popsicle stick scale". Just take a popsicle stick or something similar and balance it on a pencil. Then put your coin on one end, and another quarter on the other. If they balance, they are the same composition. If one is distinctly heavier than the other, the heavier one is silver and the lighter one is clad.)

 

Is it documented that this did actually happen. And could it be a SMS or something along the lines that maybe was put into circulation or were sms actually circulated? Sorry for the questions but im new. All i know is that there is not way that this is a regular 65. What are signs of silver aging?

 

I have a food scale here, will that work? Ill try it and see...

 

well there is a problem with the food scale because it only weighs in whole numbers. so of course either if it was silver or not the scale says 6 grams. maybe ill stop at the pharmasists.

 

The mint doesn't documented when it messes up because in the cases that they do they don't know about it till much later---but yes there are cases where a 1965 Quarter has been found on a silver planchet.
The SMS were also clad so it shouldn't be that.

Speedy

 

With the Mint in full blown anti-collector mode, did they actually produce any SMS coins in 1965?

 

Yes--they made a total of 2,360,000 sets in 1965.

Speedy

 

well how much would this be worth if it is in fact a silver 1965.

 

and is sending it away safe to have it graded?

 

Sage Advice.

 

I'm really not willing to put my neck out there untill its for sure that it is---also then we would need photos so we could tell what grade the coin is in.
After that you could look at ended auctions of this type of coin and see what they have sold for in the past.

Speedy

 

Actually coins dated 1965 were struck at the same time as coins dated 1964 . Actually, coins dated 1964 were struck well into 1966. laws pertaining to the way coins were dated were suspended during those years and the date 1964 was frozen ...so it is quite possible to have a 1965 quarter struck on a silver planchet.
check this link

http://www.ngccoin.com/news/enews/ngc_enews_0310oct.htm

have fun,
Bill

 

It's highly improbable to find any silver coin in circulation and that goes many times over for
one dated 1965. Even though a clad '64 is far rarer, it would be more likely than finding a
silver coin. It's probably recently silver plated.

 

There are about a dozen known silver '65 quarters and a lone clad '64.

 

Wonderful historical link, thanks. The original poster could have a real rarity. Back to the Judge's Popsicle test before he would submit it IMHO.

 

judge popicle test? also why would someone go through the trouble to silver plate it? I know thats it very unlikely that this is a silver 65 but i know its not a regular 65 and hopefully ill find out today by having it weighed. thanks for all the replys!!

 

Silver plating is easy to do. If it fools you because it seems "wow people actually bother to do that on a cheap coin?", then anyone can be duped.

 

popcicle test

The crude way to compare weights, is to balance a popcicle stick on a pencil then put a quarter on each end to see if the wieghts are the same or not. put a newer clad on one end then the coin in question on the other. ( Works great with 82' cents to tell if they are zinc or copper).