1999 P Connecticut Quarter Plating Error

Maybe struck on some other planchet. Since the US Mint does coinage for a few other countries it is possible it was minted on something like that.

 

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The US Mint stopped making coinage for foreign governments in 1984 so foreign planchet is HIGHLY unlikely.

Richard

 

I was not aware of that, does that include the phillipines and virgin islands as well?

 

Yes, they stopped making coins for non-US countries in 1984.

We did five denominations for Panama in 1984 and that was the last of the regular contracts that the Mint had.

In 2000 the Philadelphia Mint minted a 1000 Kronur coin for Iceland that was done in conjunction with a U. S. silver dollar coin commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Leif Ericson's voyage to America.

Thanks,
Bill

 

Looks like someone was playing around in chemistry class. The weight is right so hard to believe it is struck on some other coin blank. Ice

 

There are the two quarters trimmed out; I learned a big lesson by doing that, because I know now that the Red color edge is nothing else than the copper material itself showing out. What I'm trying to show is that "Plated unless masking so well It's no supposed to show up at the edge that well" You can see where the yellow-green material meet the copper portion. That was no masking. It's the material it self. What bother me a lot is the thin silver cover on that material ON THE OBERSE. On the Reverse the silver show up like powder on some brunches. Hope I see Frank the next coin show in long Island, to show him this quarter. Something important; the arrow is showing the Oberse of the coin. I protected more the reverse on the piece of paper below.

 

yikes all the arrows....

I still don't see anything other then a coin that has either been plated or toned a funny color... either way, it didn't come from the mint that way.

 

The arrows on the oberse show the similarity of the material on both faces with a thin cover of Silver plating. And the arrows on the reverse show that, there was intention of silver plating on the reverse. Now the question. Plating over plating? O Silver plating on Bronze? On the other hand the total tone of the oberse is normal-similar to some other State Quarters.

 

Post mint damage
JC

 

Can a post mint damage, make a sandwich with different materials than the regular one; and then plate the oberse, and try to plate the reverse? Can you see also how THICK is the RED COPPER EDGE?

 

All 3 that you show are different... and if you look at a hand full of quarters you will see that they are all different... nothing out of the ordinary IMO.

 

The thin silver coating as you describe it is an optical illusion. You can't tell which layer is visible. What you are seeing as silver, is the normal nickel layer underneath the plating that has been removed as the coin circulated after the plate job.

 

Hope this way you can make a better judgment. The 1999 P Quarter is right in the center.

 

More pictures don't make it any different. It is not an error or variety of any kind. It was tampered with in some way after it left the Mint. That's all there is to it. I humbly suggest that you learn from the experienced people here and rather than spend time trying to turn nothing into something, that you spend more time looking for the good stuff.

 

A coworker from engineering department; said that. Strip it and let see what's behind that color on the reverse. What you think about that?

 

I say go for it. But understand that buy cutting it up you loose a quarter.

I think the problem is that your not understanding what everyone say. 1st off there is no silver in your coin. It's nickle. 2nd off all the yellow tin is environmental but that doesn't make sense because it weighs more than a quarter should.

So go stick it in the microwave so the different layers will separate & dissect it.

 

But still within th tolerance range for a normal quarter. High end of the tolerance range is 5.897 or on a scale good to one decimal place 5.9 grams.

 

Thank Conder101 for the information, because just yesterday I found another Connecticut Quarter and two New Jersey State Quarters with 5.8G and the 3 belong to the same year 1999.

 

check out this web page for some info that may help...https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/199...5 known,composition, and the coin's condition.

or this one, maybe??....https://mikebyers.com/exp25cset.html

 

i have a 1999 p conneticut quarter that weighs 5.5 grams,no reeded edges,ob,and rev are very smooth,possible weak strike?/ and some of the tree branches are goldish,..is that somethin by chance?