Hello my name is Steven,how is everyone? I have a 72 quarter with a red tone it weighs 5.2 g. Anyone have any info about this coin?
We'll need to see clear, in-focus photos (both sides and edge). It's most likely environmental damage, but photos would indicate if there's any chance that it's a missing clad layer. Welcome to CoinTalk!
Painted red Quarters are something people did to mark it as silver but they are usually wrong. Yours on the other hand it environmentally damaged. Welcome to CT.
No sir it has receded edge it's hard to see though. Would you happen to know why it only weighs 5.3 g
It could be from a rolled thin planchet. The normal weight for a clad quarter is 5.67 grams +/- 0.227 grams. So your coin is not that much underweight 5.67 - 0.227=5.44
Could be slightly underweight from all the wear and tear it has had. Edges are pretty well worn away, etc. Compare it to a more pristine example. If you even took a pristine example, started filing the edge off, sandpaper the faces etc to make it look the same and weigh multiple times throughout you'd see what we're talking about how general wear affects weight.
Sorry to be a newcomer Resurrecting a year old thread, but i have a quarter that is basically identical to yours in visual and weighs exactly 5.2 grams as well.ain difference is my edge has very nice deep cut sharp defined lines and it’s struck very well on both sides with minimal if any wear.. (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/red-1972-quarter.356899/)
As @Collecting Nut said, it's environmental damage. That kind of corrosion can appear to enhance detail, just like restoring a date on a nickel.
