Is This Coin Plated With Silver Or What? (1999-P Quarter)

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Kodi169 New Member United States 18 Posts	Posted 08/15/2020 11:19 pm My wife and I are coin roll hunting and she just found this 1999 P Quarter idk I have never seen 1 like it. Here are some pics any help would be greatly appreciated. TY. * Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. Titles are Important! * Report this Post to the Staff

merclover Bedrock of the Community United States 10635 Posts	Posted 08/15/2020 11:35 pm Certainly looks plated. Could be silver or more likely, nickel. Only a novelty item, no premium. to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 08/16/2020 08:35 am It isn't difficult to nickel plate a clad quarter in a high school lab experiment. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 08/16/2020 09:33 am Plating is the most likely answer. to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 08/16/2020 4:06 pm Or a spender from a HSN 50 States quarters purchase that were sold to the rubes. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 08/17/2020 3:29 pm The TV coin shopping people plated tens if not hundreds of thousands of these things. When the poor hoodwinked buyers or their heirs try to cash in on their profits they find that they are only worth face value. Disappointed owners then either spend them, or the dealers that buy them for face value along with the rest of the stuff they got stuck with send them back to the bank and circulation. Then someone finds one and we get another question about them on the various online forums. Report this Post to the Staff
Big-Kingdom Pillar of the Community United States 1667 Posts	Posted 08/18/2020 2:45 pm Actually my guess would be it was platinum plated. There were a couple "sellers" that plated the State Quarters in gold, and in silver and sold them for big mark ups with a "presentation case", commonly known as a wooden box. I mean it could be nickel or chromium, but more likely they are gold, or in this case, platinum plated as it was more common than nickel or chromium as far as the marketing at the time. theres a set of 1 P and 1 D of this design from 1999 and then a P and a D of the State park quarter from 2017 sold for $9.95 called like 50 State Quarter platinum edition, and each state, 4 coins, plated in platinum, roughly $10 +shipping and handling, so easily $500 for the complete set for about $200 in materials to market it for all 50 states. And they really make the money on the shipping and "handling", making a couple dollars for each issue off the shipping for doing nothing and get people on a subscription for the complete set.... anyways. It's more than likely platinum plated if anything. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 08/19/2020 12:49 am Usually the TV people sold them in "sets" with a gold plated and silver plated and a platinum plated example. This means two of the three coins would be silver in color and unless it tarnishes it is really difficult to tell a platinum plating from a silver plating by appearance. Interesting tidbit. Years ago when they first started selling these, Consumers Union got curious about them and got a set to determine just how much precious metal was on them. The gold and silver coins were determines to have just a couple of cents worth on them, but on the platinum coins Consumers Union was unable to detect any platinum at all. They were plated with something, but it wasn't platinum. (At the time platinum was more expensive than gold) They didn't say what it actually was plated with. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 08/19/2020 10:57 am These were the 'Beanie Babies" of the past. One time everybody wanted them, now they don't. Report this Post to the Staff
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