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It's a gold-plated novelty. Worth 25 cents.
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The planchet for a Sac/prez would be too larger to fint into the collar. Also if it were one of these the copper would be showing on the outside rim. I'm not seeing it. It more the Side Show Barkers plated examples that they are selling to the unweary public.
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04/30/2012 10:13 pm
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I found it in a roll of quarters today, so I definitely didn't "pay" for it.
If it was plated, how do you explain the dings without flaking? Unless they plated this after it had been in circulation for some time. I would think they would get uncirculated coins.
The rim definitely is two toned, it doesn't have a uniform color like I would expect to see with a plated coin.
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If the edge reeding looks cladlike then the coin was most likely played with after a while in circulation.
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Just noticed the side shot pic.
Just an after market plate job all around.
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If it was plated, how do you explain the dings without flaking? An average uncirculated coin tends to have numerous bagmarks and is far from perfect. Even so, it could still sustain dings without breaching the plating. Just look at a post-1982 Lincoln Cent covered in bagmarks, it is plated with copper but it would take some serious hits to breach that plating. |
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I have seen some State Quarters get a gold toning on them. I have a few myself. It is either from some plastic or cardboard that caused the metal to tone. It is interesting to see and adds no extra value, unless someone is interested in collecting a whole set of them. They might pay above face, if it is in a nice grade. |
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I just found a Maryland gold plated quarter yesterday. Was wondering myself, if it had any value, so looked around online and found that there are complete sets of these quarters being sold for huge markups over no0rmal sets. I'm new to gold prospecting, but decided to try and weigh the difference between these coins and the non-plated ones. Turns out the plated coin is actually -0.8 - 0.9 grains compared to the other quarters. So, even though these are plated with 24K gold, there is no way to measure the amount of gold to determine any "extra" value. If the difference was a positive 0.8 grain, the gold plate would be worth about $2 right now, but it appears there is no extra value in the plating. Just a thought!  |
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ATTENTION: There are NO gold State Quarters...... anything you see is NOT a US Mint product, but an aftermarket plating... The value of these is ONLT ... yup.. you guessed it... 1 quarter... |
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Posted 04/30/2012 10:12 pm
