Copper Washington

Found this searching an inherited collection. Is it me or is it missing it’s nickel layer.

 

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I believe it is just environmental damage/toning/ rust.
When you are missing a clad layer it is almost 100% on one side only.
Missing both layers would be VERY thin, VERY light, and the coin details
would not be regular as shown here. If this weighs 5.67g it's worth a quarter.

 

Definitely environmental damage.

 

Appreciate the info. I’ve just never seen one so uniform in color

 

I find coins like these metal detecting. The soil/ elements/ minerals/ chemicals/ pollution along with moisture turns them this color.
Here's one from last week. It's the same color on the obverse:

 

Just damaged by the environment.

 

Very cool.

 

It's actually Cupro-Nickel. The Copper tones after harsh exposure. Here are some of my metal detected examples..


Nickels are also comprised of Cupro-Nickel.