This is what I was going on about in the other topic... 1930 SLQ MS66FH $1,250 http://polariscoins.com/inventory_showmore_offers.asp?cert=182515609 1930-S SLQ MS66 FH $1,950 http://polariscoins.com/inventory_showmore_offers.asp?cert=11211367 The S is even a nicer strike! The 1930-S is a TOUGH coin in FH, while the Philly one is one of the easier ones to come across. And yet the S mint coin is barely 50% more pricewise. Bill
Interesting info, Bill! Is there a good book on SLQ's I could buy that has tidbits like this in it? If not, please don't stop posting all this good stuff!
Thanks, You want to get a book called, appropriately enough, "Standing Liberty Quarters" by J.H. Cline put out by Zyrus Press. Amazon has it and there's a way to buy it there that supports this site, dunno where the link is but I'd ask GD or Peter
If you want to do your head in, you might as well pick up the Knauss book while you're at it, "Standing Liberty Quarters: Varieties and Errors" That'll REALLY make you nutso
You know Rid, I used to pick these coins out of the change that I'd get as a paper boy back in the sixties. Lot of worn and week dates...never really pulled a good one out of circulation but I still to this day have those coins. I must tell you that I never really appreciated the true beauty of the series until you started posting on this forum....that's one the things I like about this place. Really makes you question your collecting options and really opens you up to new collecting venues. I really must say that I am now going to actively seek out a superior example of this coin. Just gotta have one....
I was wondering that... were SLQs still common in change up until the great Silver Pull of 1965? I have read in a few places that the pre-25s would go dateless within 10 years of circulation, that's why they changed the coin to a recessed date in 1925. If you want a high grade SLQ, do you want a Type 1 or a Type 2? If I just wanted a type coin a 1929 or 1930 MS6xFH Philly coin is probably your best bet. Otherwise it's the 1917 Philly T1. Bill PS, I like your avatar
SLQ's are like a number of other coins for which a single feature is emphasized. In this case a Full Head (FH). Mercury dimes have their Full Split Bands (FSB or FB). Franklin halves, Jefferson nickels and WL halves are among series that have their special designators. So what's the problem? Many people focus so much on those features that they ignore the rest of the coin. I see the coins that's the OP linked as being perfect examples. No question that they are FH. BUT look at the shields. It may just be the image, but the shields look weak to me. I don't collect SLQs but I do know that the shield rivets and central design is a tough area to get struck up. That makes me question the -66 part of the grades. I've got an SLQ that's just the opposite. Well struck shield but the head is a bit flat. So it came out as MS-65. Of course there may be other reasons that kept it as a -65. My Point: Don't get blinded by the special designators. Look at the rest of the coin too.
Common ? No, but they could be found occasionally. As I recall I only managed to find a couple between 1960 and 1965. And the silver started getting pulled in '64 - it was well publicized what was going to happen.
Normally I would completely agree with you, however the SLQs are funny coins. The strike characteristics really vary from date to date, as silly as that seems. What's well struck for one date is average for another. That 1930-P FH is really not a special coin, and it's not especially well struck for a 30-P. On the other hand, the 1930-S does come with a FH, it is tough, MUCH tougher than the 30-P, but the coin overall tends to be mushy and I have never seen one with what I would call a "sharp" shield in person. I think I remember seeing pics of one from a Heritage sale in early 07 that was razor sharp, but that's the exception to the rule. The problem is really with the design, IMHO the coin just has a way too detailed obverse for them to be consistently struck well. http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=454&Lot_No=1313&src=pr On a 30-S, that's considered to be a VERY well struck coin.
Thanks! I wonder if the fact that Doug, you found few of them and Ken, you found a bunch of them was down to regional differences? These vanishes a decade or more before I was born, but I have read that when silver was circulating that different parts of the country favored different coinage (IE, Silver Dollars circulated out west and in parts of the South while they were not normally seen in the Midwest and Northeast).
Quite possibly because of that. But in those days I didn't have much money, I was between 7 & 12 years old. To me 50 cents was a lot so I didn't really get much change to look through. And what I did get, I tended to try and save so I could go to the bank and buy silver dollars. Yeah, all you had to do was ask in those days and the bank would happily give you silver dollars.
