My friend has a bunch of silver quarters, or so she says they are silver. They are new and not over 4 or 5 years old. Now I happen to know they only made those sandwich quarters for a long time now, and IF these are silve, as she claims, might they not be some of those silver plated quarters they are selling on the TV show. Another friend told me they are plating these and selling them as silver. The real question is, how would I go about proveing they werent silver without damaging the edge where I would need to cut with a knife to show the copper center? They look like real quarters so it would be easy for someone to fool a person who didn't know any better.
If they are dated before 1965 they are silver---if they dated 1992-date with an S mintmark then they might be silver.....as they made 2 kinds of proof quarters for the dates 1992-date and some are silver and some are not. If they are just normal quarters then point your friend to this forum and let her see for him/her self that the quartes are only plated. Speedy
Also, I've noticed on the edge of copper/nickel coins (like quarters) that you can usually see some copper and some nickel when looking on the edge of the coin (kind of half of each.) If the coins are silver though, they shouldn't (obviously) have any copper coloring on the edging - if they do, well they're not silver. That doesn't mean they are silver if there is no copper visable on the edging, if there isn't any copper visable though then weigh it like GDJMSP said.
But if they are silver plated then the copper layer will not show--that is why you have to weight them....or look at the date. Speedy
And wasn't there a discussion about the copper layer getting covered up in the minting process occasionally?
Guess I could take one to the chemistry lab with me tomorrow and have its weight checked. I can tell you already that it won't weigh very much, so what does that prove?
A silver quarter will weigh 6.25 grams, a copper-nickel quarter will weigh 5.67 grams. So, the silvere quarter is heavier.
