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Thanks for letting me know to check the edge of the coin.  I checked it and it is copper clad.  I found an article from Mike Meyers saying most of the coins were heavier so I weighed mine and it was 5.6 which is right on the mark.  So I guess I will put this baby back into the reject pile.  Thanks again.

Yes the pictures do make it look that way because I wanted to show it up close and the light really accentuates it.  Here is a better picture of it from a further distance away.  It doesn't look plated there.  I just thought it was toning originally.   It is so hard to get the right picture.  It is very lightly toned.  I had to ask my husband if he could tell a difference in the two coins and he said yes one is slightly toned.  It doesn't look gold plated but again I am not an expert so I will trust your judgement more than mine.  Thanks again for taking the time to look at it.

I was wondering if this coin is experimental metal used on the 1999 state quarters.  I have two of these but one of them looks like toning but this one doesn't.  I was going to toss it in the reject file but decided to see if this might be a keeper. 

The first picture shows it with a normal coin and the second picture is a close up as well as the third shot.  It definitely glows gold when you put the camera light on it.

Thanks for your help on this.  

So you think I should change my direction and start looking at finding perfect coins.  I always try to save back a roll of coins for each year.  I have never tried to find the perfect coin when they first come out because I don't feel competent to grade the coins.  A month ago I got two boxes of pennies at the bank and brought them home and they were both filled with 2019 pennies (over 5,000 all total).  So what would you do with these.  Would you bring them back to the bank, or go through all of them trying to find the perfect 2019 penny,  or would you save a couple of rolls back and turn in the rest???  I wish I had this luck when I was getting quarters this year.  I would love to find west point quarters.  So far to be honest I first got into collecting because of the beauty and history of the coins and then I learned about error coins and started to get into the thrill of the hunt.  Now I just like doing a combination of both.  I'm retired so an extra few dollars can help now and then.

Here is another possible DDR for a 1966 Washington Quarter.  Again I really only see fat letters.  Please let me know if this is a DDR??  Also there is a triangular chip or crack on the side which could indicate stress, right?  Thanks again.

No matter what I do I can't seem to find a doubled die.  They seem to all look the same even under a microscope camera.  Most of the time they just look fat and not doubled.  I also try to look for the notches which someone told me to do that but still most DD's are not easy to see.  So can you tell me if this is a doubled die on this buffalo nickel below?  A friend had two rolls of buffalo nickels from her dad that she asked me to look at.  This particular nickel stood out very vividly and I just wanted to see if it was a DDR.  Thanks for your help.

Thanks everyone.  I thought it was so slight that it was probably not worth keeping.  I am now super happy that I didn't just throw it back into the reject pile. I just got two boxes of quarters to try to find the west point quarters and got all old coins mostly.  A couple of weeks ago I found a War in the Pacific west point in circulation and it was still in really good condition.   That was enough to get me trying to find more.  Being in the northeast and in a small CT town makes it hard to find them.   So now I have gotten hooked on quarters.  I collected all the state quarters because my next door neighbor worked at a bank and got me all uncirculated coins each time they came out and that was the extent of my quarter collecting.  Now with the West Point mint quarters it has turned me into a quarter collector.  Thanks again for the info.

I just found this die crack going from the eagles beak down to his chest on one of my 1983 P quarters today.  I read that this is called a spitting eagle which I never heard of this before.  Is this a die crack?  It seems very weak to me.  I just started collecting quarters.  I have been collecting pennies for five years.   Just wondering if this coin is worth keeping?