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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2507509, member: 71723"]Not saying it is one, but here's a way to make a realistic looking 1965 "silver" quarter of the "wrong weight" with a little help from one of the remaining places that develop film. 1) Rig up a holder for a nice uncirculated 1965 quarter. It needs to be free of surface residues, so give it an acetone bath. 2) Arrange to have said quarter immersed in a well-used Fixer solution of a film processor running Process C-41 or E-6 (color neg. and color slide processes). New solutions won't work - they have to be well-used. Silver will quite rapidly coat the entire coin, but the deposits on any exposed copper on the coin's edge will plate especially quickly. The copper ions are just more available there without the 25% nickel that coats the faces. Voila! "Silver(ed)" 1965 quarter. The weight will run slightly high, due to the silver plating. I've made a gazillion "silver" cents the same way in my earlier days.[/QUOTE]