Standing Liberty Quarters

Has anyone collected SLQs as a series or just for your type album? I have started collecting the series...thats just the way I do things....anyway...here is my latest purchase. By the way...I like circulated coins more than MS.

 

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Just my 7070.

 

My criteria for collection is date, mint mark and eye appeal. I prefer those that I found in circulation. I favor coins that look like they worked for a living.

 

I think that the SLQ is one of the finest series especially in a circulated state. The 'cameo'-like appearance can really make an attractive coin. Here's one that caught my attention:

 

And another...

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You find these in circulation? I'm moving to Texas!!

 

I started collecting in 1948. Back then they were very common.

 

Never mind.

 

One of my favorite series. I was especially interested in the hassle MacNeil had w/
Barber over the design & subsequent re-design 1925-1930. (ref:Breen E.U.S.&C.C. Pgs:362-63) Mr. Head65, Good luck w/ your circulated set. I prefer Au-Bu examples, but cannot afford a complete set. Still, I was able to snare a Au-58 1921 & MS-63FH 1916. That about did me in, but they are my 'Stars'!
Regards,
J.T.

 

I love SLQ's! When I was a young boy back in the 1960's, you could occasionally find one in circulation. Haven't found one since tho'!

 

Here is the nicest one I found in circulation.

 

Yes, but the 1917-1924 dates are particularly irritating, as you have to pay an arm and a leg for the mint's design flaw on the date.

 

i,ve collected them, still working on a circulated set, got about five more to go. my fav quarter series, these last coins are tough, an being on a fixed monthly budget makes it harder, i need to save up a few months to get one but never seem to be able to...

 

here's a coin i got after reading an article about it in that Coneca error magazine.
a 1930 with obverse clash and abradded shield top, the clash is an "E" to the left of her knee from "E PLURIBUS UNUM", if you look you'll find many with this clash..

 

@ken454 here are photos of my 1930. It may have that clash. But, I've had it since I was a little guy and can't really tell.

 

Those are sweet circulated SLQ’s

 

I wish you could have been there. As a youngster I had the possibility of finding any coin the US ever put in circulation. Possibility not probability. I got a 20 Cent Piece in change one time. Great time.

 

Every time I go through my grandparents raw coins that I inherited, I imagine that!

 

The found in change collection I have sounds unreasonable or impossible to most people, but, I put a lot of work into it. In those days there were Mom and Pop groceries on almost every corner. I knew all the owners. They let me search their cash drawers any time I wanted. Most times they wouldn't even look up when I came in. On Saturday mornings I would go to the bank and sit in the vault and roll coins for the tellers. I would walk into the bank, go to the vault, sit on the floor and roll coins. If I found something I wanted I would just swap for change in my pocket. There were several other cash heavy businesses that I would help roll change for. It started in 1948 when my aunt gave me an 1885 nickel.

 

Very nice example. This is a series I pondered as the Seated Liberty dimes I'm on have slowed. I'm lacking 51 for the complete run, almost all semi-key and keys. However, I chose the Walking Liberty half to keep active. With that, and like yourself, circulated mid-grade and consistent eye appeal. The older series are tough enough to complete without adding in the extreme cost of going mint state.

Keep them going!