2000 State Quarter No Sign Of Sandwiching On Rim

So they plated it with platinum and sold it?

I haven't seen a platinum plated quarter before.

I've come across a couple of gold plated ones. The Home Shopping Network was selling them as if they had investment value. They do not. There is so little gold on them that the cost of recovering the gold from the coin is greater than the value of the gold. I assume the same is true for the platinum plated coins as well. Eventurally, they end up in circulation.

I kept the gold plated coins with the other oddities I've found. But they are only worth a quarter.

It's too light to be pure silver, so only other possibilities have to be considered.

I had a big load of the platinum plated sets that I got from a coin show for face value (dealer was a friend). I sold them all off by mint for $5 a set as "Birthday Sets."

I cant believe they can be sold as Platinum Sets when they are only plated. I have a friend who got duped in to buying a few sets of the gold and platinum and he brought them over to show me, when I told him they were plated, and basically only worth face value, he felt real bad. He wouldn't tell me how much he paid for them, but he said it was a lot more than face value.

If they were plated the plating would be pure silver and so would have the appearance of a .999 planchet.

Thanks Steve. I just wanted to remove the plating from the reeded area to show the copper core. That way I can show what happened when they are plated. Thanks.