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Can This Be A Circulated Gold Plated 2003 D Quarter?

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 Posted 04/15/2025  4:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 1stlady19 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all! I need your brilliant minds to guide me because I can't find anything on this very yellow but yet faded 2003 D Arkansas quarter. I came across experimental quarters that were yellow but they were only produced in Philly. Could this be an error? Or really circulated gold plate was faded? This can't be toning cuz I'm assuming it wouldn't be so even on both sides. Thoughts?

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 Posted 04/15/2025  4:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm thinking that it's stained. PMD.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  5:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marve65 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
How about a picture of the edge. If plated the edge should show the plating as it gets less wear than the surfaces.
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Just staining.
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 Posted 04/15/2025  6:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add halfamind to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Even if it was once plated, it would be an after-market (worthless) collectible, released into the wild many years ago.
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 Posted 04/16/2025  02:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 1stlady19 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks everyone. I think it's a manganese quarter because it looks just like the 1999 experimental ones. However, I think your right that it's probably an after-market piece to throw back into the wild. Lol. ;)

Thanks again!!
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Yep - a stained coin. Spend it.
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 Posted 04/16/2025  10:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add LadyGreytris to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I ended up with a gold plated coin in change some time back. I hung in to it just because I'd never seen one before.


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Fun find.

Both, I would label and keep as a reference example. At least until you really need $0.25 to spend.
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 Posted 04/18/2025  01:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CerealxKiller to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The State Quarters had a limited run with gold plated coins.
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The State Quarters had a limited run with gold plated coins.


Not from the US Mint they didn't. 3rd party plated garbage is still garbage.
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The State Quarters had a limited run with gold plated coins.
No, they didn't. Many companies took quarters and gold plated them and sold them in sets. They also did this with platinum. (no connection to the US Mints and they were hardly limited production)
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Not from the US Mint they didn't. 3rd party plated garbage is still garbage.
Well said. I have a few that came in mixed lots I purchased off ebay. They went straight to my change cup waiting to be rolled. There is some sort of corrosion showing on them even with the plating.
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Lot of saved up hate for these. They prey on Grannie or Gramps, via newspaper ads, Parade magazine, late-night TV, and the like.

"Fabulous Collectible" "Sure to appreciate in value"

And they sell 'em at prices that would make a used car salesman blush.

Grannie thinks she's investing wisely for the grandkids and leaving a valuable estate.

The heirs take their inheritance to a coin shop and either get laughed out of the place or, best case, are told that con men ripped off Grannie. That's a heck of a way to remember her.

They end up putting their inheritance into CoinStar for a $30 Amazon gift card. And you can't burn the "fabulous Rosewood collectors box" because it's vinyl over MDF and gives off toxic fumes.


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