I found this roll searching last year. I dismissed it as polished and threw it in my drawer. I just came across it again, and now that I looked more closely, I am not so sure. The edge shows no copper. It sounds like a regular ole clad quarter when I bounce it off my kids head. What do you think? Polished? Coated in something? Some awesome error that will pay for a new corvette? It weighs 5.7g.
I say it is plated. A normal copper-clad quarter weighs 5.67 grams, just shy of the weight of the coin that you found.
Too many of these were plated with a silver or gold colored metal & sold on QVC. They are only worth face value. Check the weight against some other quarters I am sure it will be very slightly heavier due to the plating it probably had applied. Sorry, no Corvette.
Oh yeah.. I bet it came from those state quarter sets. Some were 'gold, platinum or silver'. Thanks guys
Ahhhhhh....I remember those TV coin shows selling State Quarters plated in gold & platinum, but I don't recall those companies selling silver plated sets. Perhaps I'm wrong, this one may have come out of a key chain/pendant that was plated, hard to say but some type of Post Mint Damage (even though it's pretty, it's considered damaged) occurred.
Yes, I also recall the gold plated state quarters but never a silver plated one. It seems quite worthless to silver plate a clad "silver like" quarter but who knows these days.
