Black quarter missing clad layer???

I got this in my change a few days ago (1983 quarter):


And here's a normal clad quarter:


Side view:


Let me know what you think this is...Thanks!!!

 

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50 cents

 

cool error! just a regular 1983p is a more than face value coin, but with the error, maybe a dollar or two?

 

Are you sure it's an error, rather than just the variability in clad layer thickness? It seems to me (without going and checking my pile of change) that there is some variability in clad layers, and this coin seems to be an example thereof.

 

Agreed, I have two quarters sitting on my desk right now and they both look like that, one is a '72 and the other is an '02 Maine.

 

To be completely missing one layer seems like an error to me, but I could be wrong.

 

Yeah from the side it does look ordinary, but the reverse is missing a clad layer right?

 

Yeah, one layer doesn't seem to be missing...but why is it that colour?

 

Oh okay thanks

 

i dont see an error it just a mess

 

It looks like clad coins I pull out of the ground while detecting. Clad coins turn black very fast in the soil.

 

The top coin looks like one that has been outside for some time. I think it is environmental or corrosion. The clad layers can vary in thickness. Try roll searching halves and you'll see it in every roll. I wonder if they way they are struck or have the reeding placed on the edge if that just gives the appearance that they layer is more thick or thin than normal.

Oh, I see GD beat me to it on this one.

 

Want to duplicate what your seeing?

Get some jewelry cleaner, place a quarter in it, leave it sit for about 30 minutes. Bingo you have a twin to your coin.

 

Its called a sintered coin. It happens every so often to all denominations. :goofer:

 

A quarter with a missing clad layer will be:

1. Weakly struck - since it will be thinner than a normal planchet
2. The same color as a copper cent in either BU or circulated condition - since the cores of these coins are 100% copper.

 

Gee, that 2001-D SQ would go really nice next to my 2001-D Kennedy.

Chris

 

These are not my coins but plucked off of the Heritage Auction archives.