weight range for silver quarters

[scyther]

How much should silver quarters weigh? I'm looking for an acceptable range within which I shouldn't worry about it's authenticity, not just a specific number.

[neilgin1]

I could give you the specific number, 6.25 grams....or I could go upstairs, crack one of the safes, pick a roll, and start weighing, but right now i'm too lazy, glued to my desk chair and listening to the audio stream of the Cubs/Pirates game.

I can do you this, if you don't already have them, two invaluable website resources, you might wanna "favorite"

http://www.coinflation.com/

and

http://www.coincommunity.com/us_coin_facts/

both are darn fine resources......be well and blessed, neil

[68Camaro]

Meaningful weight ranges for a single quarter are pretty broad and not terribly helpful for detecting counterfeits - except the worst types. While most real quarters weigh 6.18-6.32 g, even in BU condition both low and high weight planchets can be found that yielded coins anywhere from 6.1 grams or less to 6.4 grams or more.

[silverstacker]

I could give you the specific number, 6.25 grams....or I could go upstairs, crack one of the safes, pick a roll, and start weighing, but right now i'm too lazy, glued to my desk chair and listening to the audio stream of the Cubs/Pirates game.

I can do you this, if you don't already have them, two invaluable website resources, you might wanna "favorite"

http://www.coinflation.com/

and

http://www.coincommunity.com/us_coin_facts/

both are darn fine resources......be well and blessed, neil

And I know you're rooting for the Cubs right??

[scyther]

Ok, thanks

[neilgin1]

And I know you're rooting for the Cubs right??

Stack, off topic.....my brother is a Cubs fan, i'm a baseball fan. He'll stand by "lovable losers"....to me, the two words "lovable" and "losers" don't go together, a baseball abomination. In 2006, I made the mistake of buying and going to my first and only night game at Wrigley Field with my then 11 year old son. Now as Wrigley Field is the nations largest open air gay bar, that was a huge mistake, an 11 year old boy doesn't need to hear the foul rantings of tens of thousands of DRUNKS, and when the game ended, we're going out packed like sardines onto Addison and Lincoln, a drunk crowd, which had a riot kind of feel, I was mad at myself that I hadn't even one of those small cans of WD40 on me. (they are a MUCH better personal protection aerosol than pepper spray, which is really just aerosolized hot sauce, while WD40 is a nice mix of nasty petro-chemicals) I was so worried the Wrigley Field drunken pervs and sodomites would make a grab for my lil boy, I told him to tuck himself under my arm, and we just sped thru that crowd of depraved, drunken sods.

....and I was mad at myself, because that year and 2007, I was being GIVEN front row, rock star tickets to White Sox park, by powerful people, and me and my son had many a memorable evening at that beautiful park. One night when we were sitting front row near the visiting teams on deck circle, pregame, out of nowhere, Ozzie Giullen actually had a bat boy, bring my son an autographed baseball! and my boy knew what that meant, waved and said "Thank you!"....I looked at Ozzie (!) he's looking at me, I placed a finger on my eye ("I") then to my heart ("love") and then pointed at him ('you")....we nodded and smiled at each other. Boy at 20 still has the ball to this day, kids don't forget stuff like that. I tell my brother this, he proceeds to break my bolls unmercifully, "i'm a traitor"....he was jealous, I would have taken him, but he had moved up here in 88, and his ranch is 10 times the size of mine, but he bought right, $232 an acre, (now worth 3k an acre) and what a ranch! trouble is he married a deevorced woman, who loathes everyone who loves him, is close to him, best friends, which we are, and SHE controls the purse strings...ahh enough of that.......

this years Cubs are different, they're young and don't play like "lovable losers", and for my brothers sake, I pray they take it all, just so he can get that great feeling, and I one the other love all baseball teams, the exception are the Yankees and Steinbrenner (although Jeter, Posada and Mariano were all classy guys) I love the fact that the Royals are BEASTS this year....you get what i'm saying?......I do have favorite teams, The Red Sox, White Sox and Dodgers....my son and I vowed we want to catch a game in every ball park, and we're half the way there......but for my brother, I hope the Cubs do it, although I think its going to be either the Jays or the Pirates...or the Royals.........Baseball and stacking are the only fun things we have left......okay back on topic. sorry.

[scyther]

I was so worried the Wrigley Field drunken pervs and sodomites would make a grab for my lil boy, I told him to tuck himself under my arm, and we just sped thru that crowd of depraved, drunken sods.

Lol, I never realized baseball games were so dangerous for children. Never been much of a sports fan...

[Cu Penny Hoarder]

Older 90% is bound to be underweight because of wear.

If the weight/wear bothers you, you might consider buying 1960-1964 quarters... a high percentage of them were hoarded and they usually have very little wear. I've cherry picked a few MS62-65's out of junk bags.

[beauanderos]

I just found a fake Washington going thru rolls I had put away at least five years ago. It was obvious to me just looking at it that something wasn't right, planchet is a teensy
bit slimmer, surface color just off enough to make you look twice, clangs when dropped, as opposed to rings, surface pitted oddly, and the kicker? Weighed 5.63 grams.

So maybe you're on to something by weighing them.

Whoever wants it as an example of what to look for, PM me. Available for $2 shipped. It's a 1963.

[silverstacker]

And I know you're rooting for the Cubs right??

Stack, off topic.....my brother is a Cubs fan, i'm a baseball fan. He'll stand by "lovable losers"....to me, the two words "lovable" and "losers" don't go together, a baseball abomination. In 2006, I made the mistake of buying and going to my first and only night game at Wrigley Field with my then 11 year old son. Now as Wrigley Field is the nations largest open air gay bar, that was a huge mistake, an 11 year old boy doesn't need to hear the foul rantings of tens of thousands of DRUNKS, and when the game ended, we're going out packed like sardines onto Addison and Lincoln, a drunk crowd, which had a riot kind of feel, I was mad at myself that I hadn't even one of those small cans of WD40 on me. (they are a MUCH better personal protection aerosol than pepper spray, which is really just aerosolized hot sauce, while WD40 is a nice mix of nasty petro-chemicals) I was so worried the Wrigley Field drunken pervs and sodomites would make a grab for my lil boy, I told him to tuck himself under my arm, and we just sped thru that crowd of depraved, drunken sods.

....and I was mad at myself, because that year and 2007, I was being GIVEN front row, rock star tickets to White Sox park, by powerful people, and me and my son had many a memorable evening at that beautiful park. One night when we were sitting front row near the visiting teams on deck circle, pregame, out of nowhere, Ozzie Giullen actually had a bat boy, bring my son an autographed baseball! and my boy knew what that meant, waved and said "Thank you!"....I looked at Ozzie (!) he's looking at me, I placed a finger on my eye ("I") then to my heart ("love") and then pointed at him ('you")....we nodded and smiled at each other. Boy at 20 still has the ball to this day, kids don't forget stuff like that. I tell my brother this, he proceeds to break my bolls unmercifully, "i'm a traitor"....he was jealous, I would have taken him, but he had moved up here in 88, and his ranch is 10 times the size of mine, but he bought right, $232 an acre, (now worth 3k an acre) and what a ranch! trouble is he married a deevorced woman, who loathes everyone who loves him, is close to him, best friends, which we are, and SHE controls the purse strings...ahh enough of that.......

this years Cubs are different, they're young and don't play like "lovable losers", and for my brothers sake, I pray they take it all, just so he can get that great feeling, and I one the other love all baseball teams, the exception are the Yankees and Steinbrenner (although Jeter, Posada and Mariano were all classy guys) I love the fact that the Royals are BEASTS this year....you get what i'm saying?......I do have favorite teams, The Red Sox, White Sox and Dodgers....my son and I vowed we want to catch a game in every ball park, and we're half the way there......but for my brother, I hope the Cubs do it, although I think its going to be either the Jays or the Pirates...or the Royals.........Baseball and stacking are the only fun things we have left......okay back on topic. sorry.

I hear ya my friend. Just got back from Seattle if you really want to talk about areas that I don't feel comfortable in (except for the coffee )

The young cubbies look great and I flew back to ORD last night and caught them up 5-0 before getting home and dealing with being gone for an entire week on the west coast from LA to Seattle. I believe we are in for a good few years (hope hope) but then again "as my grandfather told me back in 85 " I've been rooting and waiting for the Cubs to win it since 1925 so be patient" . Don't know if I mentioned it before but he used to clean the seats with his friends after games and they would give them tickets to the next day's game. Cubbies are in my blood and I'm not a fair weather fan and have dreams of victory before I pass on.

[Country]

I wonder if the Ryedale could sort out the Chinese fakes for us. Seems to me that there was a dime wheel. Would there be a quarter wheel adaptation? Seems like there would be market for a machine that would easily spit out the Chinese fakes, just like we spit out the zincs.

[scyther]

I wonder if the Ryedale could sort out the Chinese fakes for us. Seems to me that there was a dime wheel. Would there be a quarter wheel adaptation? Seems like there would be market for a machine that would easily spit out the Chinese fakes, just like we spit out the zincs.

It does seem easy. It's amazing that coin dealers don't all have these.