I've Got A Question About The Quarter

This indicates that the coin was minted in Philadelphia. D is for Denver and S is for San Francisco.

For many years, coins minted in Philadelphia had no mint mark. It wasn't until 1980 that the P mint mark was used on the quarters.

Very interesting question!! I went to Google and found out the following...this is just copy and paste...

The Royal Canadian Mint has caused P-demonium among coin buffs by using a new P for steel plated mint mark. The small P appears beneath the Queen's head on some 1999 trial version pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, some 2000 dated five cents coins issued last November, on all the penny through fifty cent coins in the 2001 uncirculated coin set, but only on some nickels and dimes among 2001 circulating coins. When the no P nickels were first found, they created a short term speculative market among people thinking the coins were a missing mint mark error. We now surmise that the Mint made about 30 million of each type of 2001 nickel. This makes the five cent coins about as plentiful as the monthly Millennium quarters issued over the last two years.

So it looks like your quarter with the P on it means that it was a steel plated issue. Here is the link I found for the whole article.

http://www.downtownstamps.bc.ca/new.../news16.html

Ok thanks!

Canadian mint marks are somewhat inconsistant. "P" means plated and "W" means Winipeg. I find it unusual that mint marks can mean where the coin was minted and the type of coin it is. It should just be either or.