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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 625693, member: 11521&quot;]Welcome to CoinTalk, Erickson.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are more common than you would think.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hmmm. No wonder you are confused. If it is not a silver coin how could it be that the &quot;silver has not worn off yet&quot;?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Before I give you the probable answer let me first explain how that con was made.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your coin is a &quot;clad&quot; coin. It has a copper core that is sandwiched in between two layers of copper-nickel. (Copper-nickel - or cupro-nickel - is somewhat silverish in color but it is not silver.) The clad coins start out as a coin strip that is rolled up into a coil. The strip is fed into a blanking machine that punches out coin blanks - round, flat discs of metal. (This process is much like cutting out cookies with a cookie cutter from dough that has been rolled out thin with a rolling pin.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sometimes the coin blanks do not shear off smoothly and the bottom layer of copper-nickel smears along the edge of the blank hiding the copper core. The blank with the hidden copper core goes through the rest of the coining process and gets struck as a clad coin that appears to be missing the copper core.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you feel so inclined you should weigh your coin and compare its weight to a clad quarter. If your coin weighs about 5.7 grams it is a common clad quarter. If your coin is significantly more or less than 5.7 grams then its composition may not be correct in which case you should seek expert advice. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hope that explains what you probably have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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