2005-P California Quarter With Only Man On Back and Mountain Are Gold. Help

Hey everyone! Hope this is the right place for this. A recent gas station find, it is a 2005 P California Yosemite State Quarter. The Man, Mountain, and Bird are gold while the rest is normal. Condition is very mint as well.

http://imgur.com/a/s0jpl is the pictures I took. Any help would be appreciated!

 

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You found a novelty coin that probably was cheaply gold plated, then sold on TV or something similar for $9.95, more or less. Might be worth a little over face value if you can find a buyer. Most serious coin collectors will not pay anything over a quarter for it though.

 

It doesn't seem that the gold parts are plated. How sure are you?

 

I am from California. I'll buy it for a dollar.

 

Only if you drive to Minnesota!

 

Well, I am not really sure what the other options would be.

 

The "coin" is almost certainly nothing more than a novelty piece designed to remove money from the pockets of those who didn't know any better. Take a look around (online) and you'll see all types of gimmicks using such coins. I understand the desire to have found some fantastic score, but this just isn't it.

 

I'm 100% positive! No sooner than the SQ Program was introduced in 1999, TV hucksters and private mints started selling sets of the plated coins knowing that they wouldn't grade high enough to submit to a TPG.

Chris

 

Yes that is definitely plated. You could find many similar or the exact same ones selling online if you look around enough. They had various ones plated with Silver, Gold, Platinum and sometimes a combination of 2 or 3 of those.

 

They've said it all so I won't repeat it. Yes I will. It's plated. A novelty.

 

Just for information,--- The California coin has an image of Yosemite National park showing Half Dome Rock an Eagle and John Muir who was a Naturalist, writer and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, John Muir founded the Sierra Club and helped establish Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in 1890. Although Half Dome is well known, El Capitan a Granite rock is most famous for mountain climbers and has a Horsetail water fall that is very picturesque in late February when the sun sets in the west.