Fake 1982 D magnetic quarter?

I found this today in a coin machine . It was sticking to the magnetic part of coin machine. Why would anyone fake this 1982 D quarter?

 

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The thing that points me to counterfeit is the D is large.

 

What about the turkey buzzard on the reverse?

 

I am wondering what was the purpose for faking it and wasting time to make fake 1982 quarter? Just for fun )

 

possibly it is just a magicians coin i had a state quarter that stuck to a magnet but i'm not gonna give away the trick

 

Dang I wish the quality of all of the current crop of counterfeits was like that one.

 

My dream to be a magician comes true

 

That design is waaaay off of an original.

 

all I have to say is LOOOOOOOOOOOL

 

Ha ha ha. Is it even the same size?

 

If it costs the counterfeiters ten cents to make a coin, its still 150% profit, right? This is a cheap counterfeit, so the profit margin is higher that a good counterfeit. Its called a contemporary counterfeit since its not meant to fool collectors, only the general public.

 

Yep the same size. And I showed to several people and they say " Looks fine to me." =)

 

magician's coin. I have a few (plus some similar dimes).

 

Shows you how little people actually look at their coins. If you know coins it just JUMPS right out at you as being wrong. Average person sees nothing wrong, we see it as being laughable.

 

Yup, currency too. You should see some of the jokes of reproductions of US currency that gets spent at stores. The secret Service used to have a display of fake bills they would show. I talked to one lady there, (I don't think she was an agent, just a clerk sent out with the display), and she said they recently redid it and had to put "better" counterfiets in there. She said the previous ones made collectors laugh at how comical they were, and that was not the services intent with the display.

Just this week News of the Weird reported on ANOTHER guy trying to spend a million dollar bill at Walmart. A few years ago someone tried it, and the cashier actually went to the back telling her manager she needed more money to change it!

Chris

 

I'll say it's AU50.
But don't quote me on that.

 

and every thing else. it may be iron or solid nickel play money.

 

rotfl

 

LOL - did you go into a home for the blind??? Sorry.... Couldn't resist. Just goes to show how little people pay attention.

 

Way back in the late 60's, I worked for a jewelry manufacturer.
Most of the product was cast in white metal.
The job didn't pay very well, so I cut up molds for quarters.
Each mold would produce ten fake quarters. I'd make about ten rolls a week.
They worked in just about all of the vending machines.
They weren't good enough to pass by a real person, though.
All of my phone calls, sodas and cigarettes were free until I got laid off of that job.
Sometimes I wonder if there are any of those fakes still floating around out there.