New York State quarter stamped on dollar coin?

We somehow got, either from a roll of quarters from the bank or from a customer, a 2001 New York State Quarter that looks like a Pocahontas or presidential dollar coin. It looks exactly like any other New York State quarter with a Philadelphia mint code. I'm not sure how clear the photo is but I set the coin on a white background to show the gold color.

This quarter looks like it just came out a roll of newly minted quarters. Is this real or bogus?

 

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I'll guess it's one quarter from the gold plated sets I've seen for sale from different sources.

 

Will try again with a different camera tonight. If it is from a gold plated set does it have any value??

I was thinking it might be a mistake that someone had been printing quarters on the material used for the dollars.

 

No, the plated ones were issued by places like HSN and people fell for it, paying huge premiums.

 

Not likely. The planchets for dollar coins are larger than for quarters and would not fit in the collar in the coining chamber.

You should weigh and measure your coin. Quarters weigh 5.67 grams and have a diameter of 24.3 mm. If you coin was somehow struck (not printed) on a dollar planchet (which would be nearly impossible) it should weigh 8.1 grams and have a diameter of 26.5 mm.

By the way, paper money is printed. Coins are struck. Welcome to CoinTalk.

 

You're scarin' me with that avatar Bruce.........

 

The scary thing is - - - It is a real photo so there is somebody out there somewhere that looks like that.

 

+1 The only way that could happen if it was in the press ment for the dollar and had a quarter die on one side(e.g. mule) or both sides(highly unlikly) and then I would think it would look broadstruck and it wouldnt have any reeding whats so ever.

 

It would be worth ten thousand dollars or alot more if so.

 

Hope these two are better. Digital cameras don't like to auto focus up close! What I notice when I look at the side of the coin is that there is a small section thinner than the rest of the coin. I can set it on a flat surface and don't seem to notice it but did when I looked closer at the coin. When I look at the back of the coin with lady liberty I notice the edge that surrounds this side of the coin is thicker at the top than it is on the bottom, which then works in reverse when I look at the front side of the coin - the top is thin the bottom is thick. Are we still talking a gold plated coin?

 

I don't have a thing that measures metric but using a slide ruler I had it states that 1 inch is equal to 24 mm. The quarter is 7/8 of an inch so definitely smaller than what you stated for the dollar coins.

 

I am sure it is just a quarter, possibly plated as stated above.

 

If it were possible for this scenerio to happen the rim would be very wide because of the difference in planchet sizes. This is just a plated quarter

 

Thinkin' the same thing........

 

Thanks everyone. Never owned nor have I seen a gold plated coin before. We tend to collect any silver coins we come by as well as wheat pennies This one was new to us.

 

Hey Kmailler (since no one's said it yet), welcome to the forum dear fellow.

Hope to see more of you in the forums.

 

Well, there's hundreds and hundreds on eBay... plus if you google "gold plated state quarters" you will find an incredible amount of sites offering these for sale. Many find their way into circulation. Here's eBay's offering:

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=gold+plated+state+quarters

 

I'm staying with my guess, and making it a 99.999% certainty.

 

Also consider the gold plating is ultra thin.