Possible Silver State Quarter?

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  1. fishing_guru

    fishing_guru New Member

    I just went through a roll of quarters and I thought i found a silver quarter due to no copper on the rim/side of quarter but instead found a 2003P Maine quarter. Is it possible that it is a silver quarter proof or something? Please help me out! Thank you!
     
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  3. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Silver SQ Proofs were supposedly only produced at the San Francisco Mint.

    Chris
     
  4. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Most likely what you have is one of those silver plated state quarters that the TV people have been selling for the eleven years. There are thousands and thousands of plated quarters out there and every so often someone tries to cash in on their "investment" and finds out they are only worth 25 cents. After several attempts to find someone "who will give me what they are really worth" they realize they are worthless and they spend them.
     
  5. coinmaster1

    coinmaster1 Active Member

    please take a pic and post it either here or pm it to me. i can tell if it is proof or not or if it actually is silver or not.
     
  6. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    If it's a 2003 P it won't be a proof. And a better question, as always, is what does it weigh? If it is really silver it will be noticably heavier than a clad quarter. (And plese don't say " it seems heavier", or "it feels heavier" The difference is small enough that you can't judge it by feel unless you have had a LOT of practice judging very small differences in weight. Even then it's at the extreme edge of what is detectable by touch.) So we need an actual weight in grams to at least one decimal place, two would be even better.
     
  7. Hobo

    Hobo Squirrel Hater

    I agree. Weigh it.
     
  8. chip

    chip Novice collector

    I found one of those also, it looked like a silver quarter, but the plating did not change the weight, or at least not enough to change it from a regular Johnson metal coin.
     
  9. coin-crazy

    coin-crazy Senior Error Searcher

    I`ve gotten many silver state quarters but mine are all proofs that I`ve gotten as change. with mint mark(s).. If its not try again, they are many silver state quaters in circulation!!!:yes:
     
  10. stealer

    stealer Roller of Coins

    Plated goodness!
     
  11. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    Indeed? I ain't found a one.....:)
     
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