Anyone ever seen this on a quarter??

danielfreeman27 · November 18, 2009 12:20PM

As a bank teller I do my best to find as much silver in circulation as I can. In order to do so I take all the other tellers customer wrapped coins and hold onto them until I have enough to bag them up and ship them out. Whenever I bag up quarters and dimes I am pretty good about finding some silver in every $1000 bag, especially with the dimes. I find more Canadian quarters than anything with the quarter bags. Anyway, the last quarter bag turned up something I had never seen before in about $30,000 of quarters that I have seen when bagging and I dont know why it is this way. On these two quarters found in separate rolls, but from the same customer, it appears there is no copper nickel sandwich on the side of the coins. They look like old 90% silver coinage from the side. There is a continuous silver color all the way around each coin. In the pictures provided it shows the 2 quarters in question in comparison to other state quarters and a 1942 quarter I found in the same bag. Any thoughts on this?

Barndog · November 18, 2009 12:22PM

no real clue, sounds like a missing layer. Put something like "error" in the title and it might attract error experts.

AgBlox · November 18, 2009 12:23PM

Do they have S mintmark?

CaptHenway · November 18, 2009 12:25PM

There are various telemarketers who sell vastly overpriced sets of state quarters plated in various metals, up to and including gold and platinum. When we buy estates we sometimes get these plated coins. We bust up the sets and either throw the coins in the cash register, or throw them in the bucket of odd change that gets deposited at the bank. Your coins may have come from such a deposit.
TD

commoncents05 · November 18, 2009 12:28PM

<< <i>There are various telemarketers who sell vastly overpriced sets of state quarters plated in various metals, up to and including gold and platinum. When we buy estates we sometimes get these plated coins. We bust up the sets and either throw the coins in the cash register, or throw them in the bucket of odd change that gets deposited at the bank. Your coins may have come from such a deposit.
TD >>

Bingo.

-Paul

baddogss · November 18, 2009 12:30PM

the 42D is cool find

danielfreeman27 · November 18, 2009 12:32PM

Oh ok. The first thing i looked for was the S mint mark, but they both have P mint marks.

So these are not worth holding onto?

danielfreeman27 · November 18, 2009 12:34PM

Yeah, it was great finding the 42. I get so many false alarms when i look for quarters with all the Canadian ones. It is nice to have one of the silver rimmed coins be an actual 90% one. I have got an envelope totaling about $20 in Canadian coins ever since I started my bagging hobby at work.

SilverEagles92 · November 18, 2009 12:34PM

<< <i>Oh ok. The first thing i looked for was the S mint mark, but they both have P mint marks.

So these are not worth holding onto? >>

Spend it.

BaseballAbs · November 18, 2009 12:37PM

I am too busy trying to figure out why i can't smash the stupid bug on my computer screen. I then realize AgBlox pulled a funny.

melvin289 · November 18, 2009 12:38PM

Were the 2 quarters in question North and South Carolina?

Ron

coinman420 · November 18, 2009 12:43PM

i work in a plating shop and have plated some. there are plating shops across the country and i`m sure others have plated coins and these coins eventually go back into circulation.

edited to add pic:

danielfreeman27 · November 18, 2009 1:00PM

Yeah, they were the NC and SC coins

fcloud · November 18, 2009 1:06PM

Could be someone who bought a bunch of those platinum plated coins only to find out they are worth less with the plating not more as the sellers say. Now he is dumping them as a huge loss.

ProofArtworkonCircs · November 18, 2009 1:13PM

I recently found a dime in a stack that looked like no copper on the rim. I pulled it out and used a loupe. Sure enough, there was a very thin line of copper showing. I think it is possible that when the blanks are punced out that the cupronickel can smear completely over the edge of the copper core.

melvin289 · November 18, 2009 1:13PM

<< <i>Yeah, they were the NC and SC coins >>

The reason I asked. While the reverse of the SC looks right the reverse of the NC looks a little funky or off color.

Ron

Edited to change obverse to reverse. Brain dead tonight.

mikeyg · November 18, 2009 1:40PM

Over the years I have found handfulls of quarters just like that and lots with just a sliver of copper showing.Think it is a problem with the way the metal flows

Anyone ever seen this on a quarter??

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