Weighs the same as the Quarter/Dollar mule. Looks like a Quarter/Dollar mule. Sounds like a Quarter/Dollar mule... ...and fake as a politician's promise. I collect counterfeit and altered coins to use as educational pieces. This one is pretty good and someone had some steady hands. But even without a loupe you can see it was plated if you study coins at all, but still a very impressive job with how they plated it and leaving no plating blisters or bubbling. Interesting pickup. Proof why you don't buy rare errors raw if you dont know what you're doing.
The rim on the quarter is not right either. It should be flat, and sharp. Where did you pick that one up?
A dealer had it and was selling it as a magician's coin. I told him I believe the intent was not to be a magician's coin but was instead meant to mimic one of the most valuable errors in numismatic history and try and profit off someone who is ignorant
Definitely worthy of someone's "black cabinet", where it won't be out there causing financial harm to the uninitiated, I suppose.
I recently visited a dealer friend who had a small drawer in his secretary desk for stuff like this. I examined a couple of NGC-bodybagged 1790s half dimes that would have totally fooled me.
Looks like they gutted the dollar, filed down the quarter, plated the quarter, and then dropped it in. Amazing that the weight is within tolerance
I'm sure they delicately sanded down the planed-off side until the weight was just so. (Perhaps allowing for the weight of a tiny drop of epoxy or cyanoacrylate superglue to hold the pieces together?) It's not the weight being within tolerance that I find impressive, so much as the apparently seamless assembly of the halves. "Magician's coin", my foot. This is too sophisticated a job for that. That's obviously a dodge.
They sell these as novelties. Mine came in a cheap velvet box. Can't remember what I paid, but probably under $20 as I'm too cheap to pay more for just a copy.
Do you know what your Replica weighs? As a replica I would not think that the Morgan Mint would go through all the trouble of making it weigh the same as the real thing. Also was thinking the OP's coin may be a Morgan mint MFG coin without the box and COA.
"plated in 24 Karat Rose Gold"? How can that be? 24 Karat Gold is pure Gold. Rose Gold is an alloy with Copper and Silver, so not 24 Karat. Sorry just me being nit picky about things. The coin in the OP I think is one of the manufactured replicas as mentioned above by @alurid.
On Mountain Mans replica you see the quarters' reeding mirrored above STATES. I do not see that in JCro57 coin.
