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CounterFeit?

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Got out today with my buddy at a local park. I dug a SQL and I think it's a counterfeit. First thing that caught my attention was that when it came out of the hole it didn't clean off like a silver. I've had silver come out blackened a little bit but not like this and had the gunk that this had on it except copper. It has a slight copper hue to it that is more prevelant in person that in the image below. IMHO, it's also lighter than the SLQ I compared it to in the image. I picked a silver SLQ I found last year because of similar wear. I did notice that the suspected counterfeit SLQ still has an outer rim but the known SLQ doesn't. I also noticed less wear on the 'counterfeit' but no year but the more worn silver SLQ has a date. On the lower right does have a silver color to it. They sound very similar when dropped on a table. Left = known silver Right = counterfeit Any opinions?
-Bill
 
I have seen some coins come out of our old dump site that look like that. They were burned along with other trash.
 
congrats the one you dug today is a pre 1925 with the higher relief and they wore out faster than the later dates. HH Ken
 
I am no expert so maybe different years were made different BUT... If you compare the fronts, the right one (your suspected counterfeit) the right row of stars is different than the one on the left. Just something I noticed..
 
If it is silver it was in some funky stuff. Something very acidic. Looks a lot like silver to me. I know you said it is different in person though.
BUT, it does look like the way aluminum corrodes. It does look like white rust. Weigh them if possible. Aluminum is the only thing I have ever seen come out of the ground and kinda look the same color as when it was lost. Besides silver and gold of course. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
Was my thought too. I have found coins that have been burned looked like that.
 
Turn your sens down low and pass both under the coil - if they both come out in the exact same place you probably got your answer.
 
The following quote is from coinfacts. There is more info there than you need but the last sentence explains why the date is missing from the coin with less wear. As far as the other damage I would go with the heat damage theory.
"The Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar was designed by Hermon A. MacNeil. The initial design included a bare-breasted Liberty, which proved to be much too daring for some influential individuals. The complaints against the design were sufficient to force a change in 1917, but the re-design was extreme to the opposite degree. Instead of covering Liberty's breast with the same flowing material of the rest of her dress, the designer clothed her in a coat of mail! The reverse design was also re-worked in 1917; the eagle was moved more to the center of the coin and three of the thirteen stars that used to be on the sides of the reverse were now placed beneath the majestic bird. Beginning in 1925, the dates on the coins were recessed, giving them more protection from wear. "
 
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