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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 1875166, member: 53226&quot;]I love silver bicentennial quarters.&nbsp; They are the only 40% silver quarters ever minted by the US mint, which makes them special and unique.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even know they existed until I found one at work in a roll of ordinary quarters.&nbsp; I save every bicentennial coin I find, and I bought this one and thought it was an ordinary clad business strike quarter.&nbsp; For some reason, I took it out of my pocket and looked at it later and noticed that it looked odd.&nbsp; It had a duller shine than cupronickel quarters, and there was no copper visible on the edge of the coin.&nbsp; It made a different sound when dropped than a regular cupronickel quarter.&nbsp; I took some pictures and posted them on this forum, and several posters verified that it was a 40% silver business strike, minted in San Francisco.&nbsp; Out of all my finds, this one is easily top 5 if not top 3.&nbsp; I have since purchased a silver 1976-S proof, a clad 1976-S proof, and a MS silver business strike with an S mintmark, completing my collection of bicentennial quarters along with ordinary D and P produced coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_20131123_014740_zps7f9741a5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_20131123_014811_zps8d9b43c4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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