Check your pockets: These quarters could be worth $10K

New York’s Staten Island. Coin flaws can occasionally raise their value; this is the case with certain quarters that are meant to symbolize Georgia and its famous peach.

The U.S. Mint began issuing coins for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories in 1999. In the first year, quarters were issued for Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut.

According to the U.S. Coins Guide, Georgia quarters feature at least five different kinds of color, marking, and metal content problems.

The highest prices, typically around $10,000, are frequently paid by collectors for Georgia quarters that were molded from an experimental mixture of metals that had a green or gold tint. For the Sacagawea dollar, a test alloy was used to cast the coin disks, also called planchets.

The following indicators, in addition to the golden glow, suggest that a Georgia quarter may be more valuable than a typical quarter:

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  Heavier weight, between 5.9 and 6.3 grams;
  
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  thicker disk and rim;
  
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  No orangish-copper stripe on the edge of the coin
  
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  Little or no edge reeding.
  

Although it was debuted with great fanfare in 2000, the gold-toned Sacagawea dollar—which has a copper core surrounded in manganese brass—was never extensively circulated. The coin pays tribute to a Native American woman who helped William Clark and Meriwether Lewis navigate the United States.

According to the U.S. Mint website, the five new quarters are released year in the order that the states were admitted into the Union or ratified the Constitution.

Each quarter’s reverse side has a design that reflects the state in question. George Washington, the first president, whose portrait appears on the head, has been featured on the quarter since 1932. The U.S. Mint claims that in order to accommodate state designs, inscriptions that were formerly on the tail were moved to the head.

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