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<p>[QUOTE="Mattgavriloff, post: 203468, member: 8122"]Ok, this is my first post here, but ive been collecting coins and paper money for several years...mostly just things i see at work, star bills, unique serial numbers, wheat pennies, old silver...etc.. the things you can find occasionally, but ive never really spenty anything but face value on anything in my collection. thats my intro, and my question is regarding somthing i found yesterday at work. i opened a roll of quarters, and as i usually do, i stacked them and looked at the edges, one stood out as solid in color, not clad copper. no reason to get to excited, usually its canadian...lol, sometimes silver, so i picked it out, and to my suprise it was a new state quarter...still not to suprised, must be a silver proof that someone deicded to open the set and spend...but upon closer look, its not an "S" mint...its from philly (P)....now maybe this isnt anything special, but i cannot find ANY info on this coin anywhere....ive searched for hours on all the coin fact sites i frequent, and im clueless...my two thoughts are counterfit (someone made it to pass off for big bucks, but why would it end up in a small town bank roll?), or an error of some sort, but i dont know how... so, here i am...help!...lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mattgavriloff, post: 203468, member: 8122"]Ok, this is my first post here, but ive been collecting coins and paper money for several years...mostly just things i see at work, star bills, unique serial numbers, wheat pennies, old silver...etc.. the things you can find occasionally, but ive never really spenty anything but face value on anything in my collection. thats my intro, and my question is regarding somthing i found yesterday at work. i opened a roll of quarters, and as i usually do, i stacked them and looked at the edges, one stood out as solid in color, not clad copper. no reason to get to excited, usually its canadian...lol, sometimes silver, so i picked it out, and to my suprise it was a new state quarter...still not to suprised, must be a silver proof that someone deicded to open the set and spend...but upon closer look, its not an "S" mint...its from philly (P)....now maybe this isnt anything special, but i cannot find ANY info on this coin anywhere....ive searched for hours on all the coin fact sites i frequent, and im clueless...my two thoughts are counterfit (someone made it to pass off for big bucks, but why would it end up in a small town bank roll?), or an error of some sort, but i dont know how... so, here i am...help!...lol[/QUOTE]
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