i collect silver so i bought this because if it silver great if not ill return it. but why does washington have a beard and glasses. Could it be really rare or is it just defaced?
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Its defaced, cool nonetheless. 1946 should be silver, but I may be wrong. Can’t remember when the mint changed metals.
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I think they started changing metals around 1964.
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Yep anything 1964 and earlier should be silver as far as dimes and quarters. Think nickels are different. That looks like someone did that themselves.
Jimmy, you better keep that one! If you really want to get rid of it, sell it to me.
I will give you 25 cents for it…
If it not a fake its 90 percent silver. pretty cool though.
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only nickles that are silver were war nickles made in ww2 to conserve nickle. steel pennies were aslo made during ww2 for a year to save copper for war efforts.
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From the picture it “looks” silver. Proper shading of tarnish and such. Take it and a newer quarter and drop them one at a time on the counter or other solid surface. Silver one will make more of a dull thud than the higher pitch ring of the copper/nickle clad newer one. Also I know the silver one weighs ~6.2g and the newer ones are lighter, somewhere around 5.7 or 5.6g
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There’s an easier way… Turn the quarter on its ridges and inspect. Silver quarters are silver on the ridges… Copper ones are copper-toned on the sides.
As stated before, all GW quarters prior to '65 are silver.
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I took a gallon jar of change to the bank last week and dumped it in the coin machine. It spit me back out 4 pre 64 silver quarters that I didn’t know were in there 
And 2 Canadian quarters. I guess they don’t weigh the same.
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Originally posted by Cracker LarryI took a gallon jar of change to the bank last week and dumped it in the coin machine. It spit me back out 4 pre 64 silver quarters that I didn’t know were in there
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