Gold Plated Quarters

Those quarters did not come from the mint plated in gold. The amount of gold is so small that it isn't even worth it. Most collectors consider them to be post mint damage, like a sticker.

I think these are collected by people who do not collect coins or have a very limited knowledge of coins. They see gold and think that will increase the value based on gold content. If you check by weight these coins have just a trace amount of gold.

To me it's nothing more than PMD.

PMD and your better off just collecting the regular quarters, unless you can get them for VERY cheap. The gold plateing seems like a gimmic to me, as mentioned, to try to draw appeal to the coins, but I don't think anyone who knows about coins really collects them. Again as mantioned the gold weight added to them is minuscule and really adds no value whatsoever.. Actually I'd bet most would say it detracts from the value.
Although they do look kinda nice... But personally I wouldn't buy them, but if you like them and can get a good price then that's all that matters!
If you don't mind sharing, just out of curiosity what are they asking for them? Or how many in the set and how much for it?

Actually I think they were $5 for each set of 5
Trying to remember what tub they were in