2000 P Silver Quarter

ok silverstackerkid I will do that, thank you! your the best :)

Just looking out for other members and their coins.

I agree with Hello There because many third party companies plate these. This might even be platinum plated. But a weight would help a lot.

I believe Hello There means they have a 2002 D Louisiana silver plated quarter and a 2004 P Iowa.

These are quite common. but again, a weight is needed to be 100% sure.

Quarter .900 silver- 6.25 gram
Nickel .350 silver- 5 gram

They are not making the coins, they are plating them. Mostly so that Grandmas can buy them for their coin collector family members and feel as if it is a nice gift. Ignorance is bliss for some people.

Don't know, never used any chemicals on coins. How silly it may sound, I was scared to clean a coin with dish soap not knowing the amount needed. I like to stick to a scale and nothing more.

Note that your coin has a "P" mint mark on the obverse (heads) meaning that it was minted in Philadelphia. No silver quarters are minted at the Philadelphia mint, so for it to be silver it would have to have an "S" mint mark on it, indicating it was made in San Francisco. (SF is the only mint where silver quarters are currently minted.)

So, as stated above, it is almost certainly plated with something. Plating puts such a thin layer of the metal on the coin that it does nothing to add to the value of the coin.

Still fun and a keeper in my book.

For your future reference if you have doubt of a coins silver content, you can also drop the quarter an inch or two onto a hard surface and listen if it has a silver "ring" to it, as opposed to the "clunk" noise a clad coin has. Alternatively we can say it's not a silver coin just because it doesn't have the silver look at all. Buy or obtain at least one known silver quarter and put it side to side with the suspected silver coin. The differences should be obvious if it's not silver. This trick works for all U.S. dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars.

Yes I know I know, it's a bad idea to drop coins on purpose, but I love sound of ringing silver, so I have no regrets .