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Virginia 2000-P - Is This On The Wrong Planchet?

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 Posted 11/12/2020  11:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add AmyRM to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I am still learning ... but as I was sifting through coins tonight I noticed this circulated 2000-P Virginia coin did not have a copper layer.... or so it seems. What say you? In one photo the coin is on top. In another photo it is in the middle.
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 Posted 11/13/2020  12:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add merclover to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sometimes the clad layer "floats" or is uneven. Could be silver, but yours does not appear to be a proof. You didn't show us the obverse... is there a mintmark just to the right of Washington's shoulder? What does it weigh?
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 Posted 11/13/2020  12:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add AmyRM to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It has a Philadelphia "P" mint mark. My scale rounds up (I need a better one) so I can't tell much about the weight.
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 Posted 11/13/2020  06:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@amy, I agree with @merc that a weight would really help. It almost certainly is just a normal quarter but the weight would help us know for certain what you have there.
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I went ahead and bought I scale (via Amazon). I keep putting that off, but with coin collecting & such I think a better scale will prove valuable/helpful. THANK YOU for your help! I saw online last night (while Googling for info) that another guy found a Virginia 2000-P quarter with the same coloring. He was leaning towards the uneven clad layers too.
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 Posted 11/13/2020  12:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Big-Kingdom to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My thought is it's a circulated platinum plated quarter, aftermarket "collector coin" that's worth about 25 cents, but people paid like $5.95-$9.95 or more from marketers because of the plating and a fancy packaging. you can look it up online, they are still being sold to the unsuspecting, they plated tons of them in platinum or gold, sold them to the unsuspecting and when the coin shops won't give them more than face value, they just spend them or take them to the bank.

The P mintmark tells me it's not the silver proof coin which would have an S. It's pretty rare for the clad layers on both sides to overlap all the way around the coin, sure it might overlap in spots but not all the way around.
so I'm leaning towards it being plated.


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HSN were selling these to to the rubes that were plated with platinum and gold:
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When they figure out they have been taken, then they spend them. The plating ruins collector value. Just spenders.
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