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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YankeeDime, post: 7940990, member: 119919&quot;]Jokes aside, the unusual reeding and weak strike prompted me to throw it on the scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;As far as the reeding is concerned the notches are pressed into the copper core but don&#039;t extend into the clad layers (meaning the lower valleys of the notches are sunk below the cladding layer edge while the peaks are flush with the cladding layer). From what I know of the minting process this cannot be a minting error so therefore must be some type of PMD.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;With that, on to the weight.</p><p>Surprisingly this clad coin is grossly underweight at 4.26g despite no discernible difference in diameter or thickness.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;This leaves me with a coin too thick to be struck from dime stock and being a clad coin highly unlikely to be an off metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Underweight coins are not unheard of but are usually much thinner than a normal coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So my question is if this is acid treated (despite appearing the same diameter and thickness as any other quarter), counterfeit, circulation wear, mint error (unlikely, I know), or something else?</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1374454[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1374455[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1374458[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1374459[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sorry for the slightly blurry phone photos but it&#039;s what I have to work with at the moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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