Mint error 1965 SILVER quarter struck off center

And to have you eat your own words... I'm 19 and completely agree with these "negative grouches" so does that make me one to?

 

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The weight is the most important thing at this point. I can't go along with part of it being chopped off. How could that happen in the minting process? You really need to weigh it.

 

Looking forward to seeing it slabbed.

 

As everyone has mentioned, weight is important. Other than what has been mentioned, it could possibly be a quarter struck on another country's planchet. As a member of CONECA, I have seen a few of these over the years. Just something else to consider.

 

To the OP...It is not any negativity here that is killing the hobby for potential young numismatists. You will not find a better forum anywhere online that I am aware of for this hobby. What IS killing this hobby is I-pads, I-phones, Social Media sites, and parents who do not engage their children in a side hobby that will last a lifetime. Instead, they engage them in multiple sports venues, take them to the games and then sit there on THEIR phones, tablets and readers. Or they throw the kids some money and tell them to get lost for awhile. But, there are some parents here who are doing a fine job teaching their children about numismatics as you will see along the way here. We always try to engage newbies here and are quite patient with them in general. Many of us here have 50 years or more of knowledge, and while we can be wrong, most will admit it if caught. I pays to be humble. When you get your coin back from PCGS, by all means, please let us know how it turned out and post some photos. If anyone was wrong, I'm sure they will come forward. But if you were wrong then we would expect you, to also be humble enough to say so.

 

I don't think weight will help much. That coin appears to be struck on a foreign planchet. It will take some research to determine which one.

 

Couldn't agree more, that's why my generation of the work force is non existent.... And trust me, I should know, I have to work with some of them .

 

Actually weight would help tremendously...this is what some members in CONECA who collect these kinds of errors use to determine which foreign planchet it is. Jeff Ylitalo is a big collector of these in CONECA and writes many articles on these errors in ERRORSCOPE (CONECAs publication). Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for correcting me. I meant and should have said, it wouldn't help much in determining whether it was a silver or clad quarter. It's an obvious quarter but the weight would differ from a silver quarter's. It's definitely in my opinion, a foreign planchet.

 

Well, if it were a foreign planchet, weight would go a long way towards helping that conclusion....

The only plausible candidate for an accidental foreign planchet strike (silver and roughly the correct size while being smaller to fit into the collar) I can find in my information - which may not be complete - is the 1961 Liberia Quarter. And that one would have to "accidentally" hang around for three or four years to be available.

 

What about nickel? Just because copper isn't showing doesn't automatically mean silver. Only a specific gravity test can do that. If it is silver, a 1/4 Balboa comes to mind, which is 24mm.

 

Not minted until 1966, and essentially the exact same diameter. No irregularity would have been forced into the shape; it would have filled the collar.

 

Welcome Mitch, I hope you really have something there but I gotta be totally honest with you.
1. The weight really does matter.
2. Many others have come on here with a 1965 quarters that they thought were 90% silver. So far they have all learned that they were wrong, usually it's a silver plated quarter or some oddball situation. Yours looks like a dryer quarter to me. I hope I'm wrong and you really have something. Before you send it off to be graded, save your money and weigh it. Please prove my "grouchy" friends wrong , if you can. good luck! And please, come back with good news or bad.

 

1965 quarter struck on a nickel planchet.

 

Does kinda look like the quarter on nickel error.

But honestly, I'll bet what's left of my savings that the OP is a troll, as expected.

But if you're reading op, and you refuse to weigh it, then at least do a damn specific gravity test to see if it's actually silver or not. Save your money from submitting.

 

Find a local dealer with an XRF. This will tell you what it's made of. I agree it looks like a nickel planchet.

 

Just curious. How do you tell a mint sealed coin is on a nickel planchet? The edge photo looks like pink copper. Is that a reflection?

 

I don't believe it's mint sealed, but could be. Maybe you could ask these folks, they are the ones I stole the photos from.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...uDJdHqPNCHo60kXAg&sig2=5xGleGwpKzG9Ni5-cyoE4Q
There are others out there. I saw several graded coin photos online and others sold on Heritage.

 

A while back, I responded to a thread topic of Type 1 rev. Kennedy halves. I was excited over these because I found several in my inventory. It was explained to me that these were no big deal and I should not think that it was. I felt insulated for a few days, but when my anger wore down, I realized that not all, but only some on this site reacted in a negative manor. I think your coin has a fair chance of being a trans. strike, as they do exist in few numbers. The Mint was in a panic to produce large numbers of coins and they made errors in the process. I can,t wait to hear back from you!

 

I'm confused, are we discussing possibilities or facts?