1916 standing liberty quarter help

I got $3.75 in standing liberty quarters from someone yesterday,,well worn and dateless for $80,,I could have got em for $40...Any way i found a 1916 going for over 1K on an auction site...from their description is this info proper to determine if I have one

Here is the lowest mintage US coin of the twentieth century -- only 52,000 made and sneaked into circulation in December of that year. By contrast, about 8 X (!!) more 1909-S VDBs were minted. The old blue Whitman folders often had that date filled in because of the difficulty in finding a rare piece.

EDITED: Hemi1500, you can only b/s/t/auction in the classifieds. I am leaving inthe parts about Identification, but not more selling info. forum rules

 

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Pictures would be ideal.

 

Can you get some pics up?

 

I'll get on that later

 

I'll try a scan first

 

The easiest way to tell if you have a dateless 1916 vs a 1917 T1 on a very worn coin is the reed above Liberty's head is cut in half to allow room for her head on the 1916. It is not on the 1917 T1

Mike

 

gone,,,look below

 

When I click on your picture...


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http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/2005HEMI/libertyquartersfinal_zps5c51e34a.jpg

 

that from photobucket

 

I would pull that link. My virus scanner is showing that's a link with an active virus.

 

There are several ways to differentiate a 1916 from a 1917 on a dateless coin. From Cline, they are as follows:

1) On the high grades, the gown drapes below the edge of the ship's sideboards
2) The gown folds are different along Miss Liberty's leg. (Does not touch leg)
3) Here gown is incused instead of raised, as on the 1917 and later coins in the right hand area.
4) (The one yours truly likes best of all) The reed above Miss Liberty's head is cut in half to make room for her head. I like this one best as you can tell in very low grades.
5) Miss Liberty's great toe slightly overlaps the base and, facing the coin, Miss Liberty's gown touches the left side of her foot and is not as curved at the bottom as the 1917 Type 1 or any other date. On the altered date, her gown does indeed touch the foot, and the bottom edge of the gown is much more rounded.
6) Fingers are "mushed" together on 1916, small and separated on the 1917 Type 1.

The best way to learn how to recognize these differences is to start by comparing mint state coins and then move to the lower circulated grades. Shown below is a photo of a high grade 1916, 1917 and a well worn 1916.





If you can post a photo of the coin in question, a quick comparison using these guidelines should provide you with the answer.

 

what antivirus do you have and on what platform? BTW

 

Norton 360, and I'm running Windows 7 with Chrome.

 

I did pull that link and currently running my anti-virus scan//I did not get a warning,,,if there was a virus my program would have terminated the connection

 

new link in post #10

 

Well those T1's are VERY worn, and on almost all it may be difficult to impossible to differentiate. It may be necessary to acid date them if you really want to know.

Doing a bit of math here, The total mintage of all 1917 T1's (all MM's since you can't if there once was a mint mark) is around 12 Million and there were 50,000 1916's the odds would be 1 in 240 with all things being equal. Feeling lucky?

Edit: I just took another look at you photo, and judging by Liberty's head, I don't think they are T1's at all.

Mike

 

well theres your problem.

 

My hopes were not up,,I may flip them for some halves