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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1229378, member: 11521"]Clad coins are sort of like a sandwich with a copper core and two copper-nickel outside layers. Blanks for the coins are punched out of a sheet (much like a cookie cutter cutting out cookies from dough). Sometimes the copper-nickel from one of the outside layers smears over the copper core when the blank is punched out obscuring the copper core. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your best bet would be to weigh the coin. If it weighs 5.67 grams +/- it is a normal clad quarter. If it weighs 6.25 grams +/- it is 90% silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1229378, member: 11521"]Clad coins are sort of like a sandwich with a copper core and two copper-nickel outside layers. Blanks for the coins are punched out of a sheet (much like a cookie cutter cutting out cookies from dough). Sometimes the copper-nickel from one of the outside layers smears over the copper core when the blank is punched out obscuring the copper core. Your best bet would be to weigh the coin. If it weighs 5.67 grams +/- it is a normal clad quarter. If it weighs 6.25 grams +/- it is 90% silver.[/QUOTE]
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