Fake Quarter or Error?

[PAyoungin]

I got this quarter in my change at a Laundromat in Chinatown (hence my thought that it could be fake). It is a P mint.

Thoughts?

 

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[pl8man]

Maybe it's silver and was in a special proof or mint set at one time . Cool find
Glen

 

[TNStartinAgain]

Nice find !!!

 

[Mackaydon]

The second 2010 coin to be issued in the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program is the Yellowstone National Park Quarter. It was introduced into circulation beginning on June 1, 2010.
Yellowstone National Park Quarter | Wyoming | 2010 America the Beautiful Quarter
Don....

 

[jewelerguy]

with a 'P' mint mark, it shouldn't be silver. probably just a crappy layering of the copper and nickel it takes to make the blank planchets. any more, they produce coins with high speed/high production equipment that the end result is a coin just as cheap and crappy as the chinese made merchandise it eventually buys. our nation seems to no longer take pride in our coinage as they did many years ago. the whole state quarters, national park quarters, and presidential dollar deal was/is nothing more than a money making scheme cooked up by the greedy people who run our country.... it takes about 3 cents to make a quarter, so every one that gets pulled from circulation for the sake of collecting (which was the government's intent) gives the government a net profit of 22 cents.

 

[DownEastDetectorist]

The silver ones were 3 inches in diameter and 5 ounces .999 fine

 

[DownEastDetectorist]

Drop it on a hard surface and listen for the ring of silver.

 

[PAyoungin]

My only concern is the rim. I don't know why anyone would ever counterfeit a quarter...