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Message:: [QUOTE="speters33w, post: 1067324, member: 28541"]On further investigation, I'm fairly confidant Jon4485 is correct. It is a Magician's coin.  I feel like my niece who excitedly posted a "look what I got in my change" on her facebook wall with a very nice picture of a 1955 wheat cent in G4-VG8 condition and asked about it's value... which is about $0.02 in copper, $0.01 as currency and unsaleable for its numismatic value, but too cool not to put in a "cool coins" jar and keep. I remembered the weight of a quarter incorrectly. I am a nickel collector, so 5 grams is firmly in my head... and didn't actually double-check. A normal State Quarter weighs about 5.6 grams. I found that better quality trick coin makers actually core the coins and replace the copper layer with a copper-edged steel blank so the "closest inspection" can't find the difference. So, my quarter's actual sale value when new is about $15.00 (not bad for a State Quarter). Here is a site that shows a lot of cool trick coins like the one I got in pocket change: <a href="http://www.abbottmagic.com/US-Trick-Coins_c47.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abbottmagic.com/US-Trick-Coins_c47.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.abbottmagic.com/US-Trick-Coins_c47.htm</a>[/QUOTE]