quarter struck on nickel planchet

This was mixed in with buffalo nickels

 

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Wow. That's gotta be worth a lot. Nice.

 

I'm sorry, this coin was actually struck on a cent planchet not nickel.
weight is 3.8 grams

 

I'm not sure if you are joking or for real. Cents weight between 2.5 and 3.11 grams depending on the year.

 

If a photo is worth a thousand words, then this should cover everything I have to say...

 

A quarter that was struck on a nickle planchet - no wait, a cent planchet but doesn't have the right weight and found in a roll of buffaloes -

 

It was struck on cent for sure. edges are copper

 

To me it looks like it's a acid tank find ...

 

So is the core of a clad quarter ....

 

I wouldn't bet on cent or nickel. I think it is PMD.

Chris

 

The eagle on the reverse wouldn't fit on a cent so you can rule that out. Agreed that it is just a damaged quarter.

 

Plus if a quarter was struck onto a cent planchet then the quarter would be all copper

 

Oh, no....

The recent posts are not of actual shop purchases, are they?

 

Also true, or that terrible zinc now

 

You THINK it's PMD?

OH yes let's run a coil of quarter strip through the nickel blanking press, and then take the nickel sized clad planchets over to the quarter press.

Let's see three different major unlikely errors, or PMD Hmmm.

 

IMO, a cut-down clad quarter altered outside the mint to fool people.

 

Have you checked your change lately?

and looked at a quarter's edge?

 

The current clad version is two layers of cupronickel, 75% copper and 25% nickel, on a core of pure copper
Here is an example of a Quarter missing clad top layer from my collection -

 

Yup, just damaged.