This is a quarter we ran across a while back. It is copper on the heads side and cupronickel on the tails side. Cupronickel is 75% copper, 25% nickel, and a trace amount of manganese. That is the silvery part of our clad coins: dimes, quarters, and half dollars. Anyhow, this coin should not have made it into circulation. It was a mis-strike. I had it checked out by a coin dealer, and he said that it was probably worth about 25 cents. Evidently, mistakes in the government aren't all that rare.
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