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<p>[QUOTE="ken454, post: 2967736, member: 56575"]ok, back in the 80's i was dating a bank teller, and she saved me all kinds of goodies, old coins, silver, blue and red seal currency, oddities, i sorta schooled her on things to watch for, one day she had this for me,she said it came out of a roll of quarters, so at the time i just marked it as an unfinished quarter as it is copper colored and has a reeded edge, but recently dug it out, took pics, measured and weighed it, well the weight has me stumped, the 1980 quarter in pic is 24.13 mm, the "slug" is 24.16 mm, so same size as quarter but weight is way off as shown in pics, a normal clad quarter is 5.67 grams, which the 1980 quarter comes in at, but this "slug" weighed in at 6.5 g, oh, and its non magnetic, so what is it? is it a washington unclad copper planchet? or could it be from a foreign coin? what do you all think??</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]727539[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727540[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727541[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727543[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727549[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727550[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ken454, post: 2967736, member: 56575"]ok, back in the 80's i was dating a bank teller, and she saved me all kinds of goodies, old coins, silver, blue and red seal currency, oddities, i sorta schooled her on things to watch for, one day she had this for me,she said it came out of a roll of quarters, so at the time i just marked it as an unfinished quarter as it is copper colored and has a reeded edge, but recently dug it out, took pics, measured and weighed it, well the weight has me stumped, the 1980 quarter in pic is 24.13 mm, the "slug" is 24.16 mm, so same size as quarter but weight is way off as shown in pics, a normal clad quarter is 5.67 grams, which the 1980 quarter comes in at, but this "slug" weighed in at 6.5 g, oh, and its non magnetic, so what is it? is it a washington unclad copper planchet? or could it be from a foreign coin? what do you all think?? [ATTACH=full]727539[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727540[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727541[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727543[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727544[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727549[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727550[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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