Old 25 cent: Some coins, like the Georgia State quarter from 1999, are very expensive to coin collectors and can fetch as much as $10,000. This 50 State Quarters coin from the U.S. Mint gained value because of mistakes made when it was made.
It was released on July 19, 1999, as the fourth quarter of that year’s run. Its high value comes from collectors looking for one-of-a-kind or mistakenly printed coins, which are sometimes very hard to find and very valuable. Please take a closer look at your 1999 Georgia State quarter to see if it is one of these rare, mistake-made coins.
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John Flanagan’s well-known portrait of George Washington, which has been featured on the quarter since 1932, is featured on the obverse design.
The state motto, “Wisdom, Justice, Moderation,” and the branches of a live oak, the state tree, around the peach, the state symbol, in the middle of the outline of the state of Georgia on the reverse design.
How Old 25 cent coins Could Be Worth Up to $10,000?
Some Georgia state quarters from the state coin program are worth thousands of dollars because of a mistake involving coins struck in experimental metals, known as planchette, meant for the Sacagawea dollar, according to the U.S. website Coins Guide.
The United States Mint was developing a new metal alloy for coins at the time of the state coin program. In the end, the alloy’s gold tint was utilized for the 2000 Sacagawea one-dollar coins.
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Although the Treasury Department chose not to use the alloy in the quarters, the manufactured coins were nevertheless published and are now in great demand among collectors, according to the U.S. Coins Guide.
- It weighs between 5.9 and 6.3 grams on a coin scale, which is more than the 5.67 grams of a typical copper-nickel clad coin.
- It appears thicker than normal.
- It has a golden or greenish color, similar to Sacagawea dollars.
- It lacks the copper stripe (orange color) on the edge of the coin.
- Lacks part or all of the tongue edge.
- It has a thicker edge than normal.
The U.S. Coins Guide states that some of these experimental planchette-struck Georgia quarters brought up to $10,000 in sales. The 1999 Georgia state quarters have several qualities listed above that can fetch hundreds of dollars.
