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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jeankay, post: 373545, member: 12159&quot;]Hi Tunafish,</p><p>Welcome to CT.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Although I have no firm answer about your quarter, there are a couple of points I want to mention.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Because this 1982 D minted coin is a clad version I find it odd that any &#039;spooning&#039; or shaving of the reeding would show what appears to be a very nice silvery finish. Instead you would likely see more a copper color than a silver colored edge (in this case, an very shiny nickel color).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Do you have anywhere you can weigh the coin? </p><p>According to RED BOOK of COINS the coin should weigh 5.67 grams with</p><p>outer layers of .759 copper and .250 nickel bonded to an inner core of pure copper.</p><p>If it is significantly under or over that weight then someone has either shaved it, or had it plated... or whatever they did to change the appearance. The coin should measure 24.3 mm edge to edge, the reeding included.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Do the obverse and reverse have nice crisp detail? </p><p>If it does I find it odd that it could have spent much time in any machine that would wear it down, like a slot machine, counting machine or any other coin-operated machine, or pockets and tills. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All of this is said without actually seeing the coin, (and my limited knowledge and examining coins while collecting). The statistics are from The Red Book of Coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>jeankay[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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