2000 P Virginia State Quarter.opinion's Needed

Strikes me as a worn coin from a worn die.

Thanks guy's...
Looks like they would had retired that Die loooong before it struck this mass..:)
And Coop ..what does "VLDS" stand for?

This is a cool looking coin. It is interesting seeing such a worn die on the obverse with a reverse struck from a normal looking die. It is a coin I would keep just for the heck of it. I bet the die got even worse before it was retired. It would really be fun to look at an unciculated roll of these.

On Morgan silver dollars the 1889-O VAM 13B has "crumbled stars" that were created from a deteriorated die. The 1883-O "buffed reverse" has some of the same traits as your coin. http://www.vamworld.com/1883-O+VAM-1C1 unfortunately there is not anyone cataloging all of the die pairs used for the State Quarter yet like was/is being done with the Morgan & Peace Silver Dollars.

Like life not all are happy marriages. One breaks up and a better one is added to the surviving die.

I was not saying anyone was wrong. Coop is the man on this site. He and a few others are always here to help and it is much appreciated. I was just saying I would hold onto it unless I needed the money to get more coins I guess. I admit there is no value other than it being a quarter right now but it is just kind of cool. Is it normal to have one die that is VLDS and another that is EDS? I don't know, but I don't think it is common. I was just pointing out that it is somewhat similar to what is called out on some dies for the Morgan silver dollars. Maybe Monika has never seen these before and will get interested in VAMs also.

Someday in the future maybe 20 years from now someone will be doing die studies on these coins and it would just be interesting to have for a die progression.

I agree the reverse does not look EDS but it is really hard to tell what die state the reverse is because of the wear to the coin. I don't know what these things looks like with a nice fresh die because I don't collect them. The reverse of the coin is not what makes this coin interesting to me anyway, it is the extreme die wear on the obverse. It would be even more interesting if it started to "crumble" the letters and devices even more.

I don't look at many quarters other than what is in my pocket change so, these might be common but I have never noticed any like this. I am just a coin enthusiast that is trying to learn. I know a lot about VAM's but a lot of the stuff collected in the Morgan dollar Dies does not seem to be as big a deal in later coins. I just like to point people in the right direction when they pick something like that up in a coin. Being able to pick out a worn die over a worn coin is a good thing to learn. I have a hard time at this with old nickels & quarters, I think it is because they were used a lot.

Most people look at a 1992-D penny and think it is worth one cent but if they knew it had a Close AM on the reverse they would have a $3,000+ coin. Maybe if they knew there were only a few thousand of the Virginia quarters with extremely worn dies they might become collectible and be worth 35 cents. I am just making up numbers but you get the point.