I've never had a quarter in more than 30 years of collecting, except for the Isabella Commemorative Quarter. I have owned every other type of denomination ever, except for a quarter. Not sure why it just turned out that way. However, with a very budget-friendly purchase that all changed. My new 1837 quarter, and first regular quarter ever to grace my collection. She's a humble one, seeing plenty of circulation back in the day, but still got some nice detail to her. I'm happy with it. I think it's a decent start. Feel free to show any relevant quarters.
Oooh, those are some nice smooth even grey surfaces with a bit of cameo. I like your new purchase! I don't own a capped bust quarter, as none have presented themselves in my desired grade and price.
A handsome example. I think the best I've owned was a PCGS VF35. Yours looks similar. Is it a 35? A 40? I see what I assume are NGC prongs in the photos there. I will go out on a limb and guess NGC XF40. Glad to hear it was "budget friendly". That's not always the case with Capped Bust quarters, particularly nicer looking ones.
The mint produced far fewer quarters than it did half dollars during this period. Quarters from the 1790s to the 1840s are seldom cheap if they are nice.
Let me put it this way @lordmarcovan and @ksparrow I think my coin could go either way on any given day. There are some aspects of it, especially on the feathers in the eagle and the very clean fields that are definitely XF-40, while the wear in the obverse leans a little closer to VF-35. I think on any given day you could ask 10 experts and get 10 different answers whether this is VF-35 or XF-40. My personal opinion is that if this was a VF-35 I could submit it to CAC for a green bean, but as it stands, XF-40, I would not as it would not bean. So I would say it's either a high for it's grade VF-35 or a low for it's grade XF-40, depending on who is grading that day. Either way, what I paid was squarely in between the price for a VF-35 and an XF-40, which I thought was fair given that in my opinion this one straddles the lines between both grades. And also, due to its "approximate grade" which is far away from AU or MS, I was able to get it without breaking the bank.....hence budget friendly, as AU and MS examples are definitely up there in price.
Funny that others posted are also 1835. I accumulated other quarters as a kid - a few silver Washington, bicentennial pulled from change, etc. This one was the first, inherited from grandpa/grandma and probably passed down from an ancestor. More recently I started picking up a few Barber quarters, particularly for the 1900 obv/rev hub type combinations during that year. Some day I'll have to take better pictures; this pic is way old.
I have owned this one for many years. The purists don't like it because it has been dipped. It works for me. I've never tried to replace it.
This photo was taken prior to an acetone bath and shows extensive pvc damage. Haven’t had a chance to take another following treatment, but the improvement is remarkable.
Love the look of that quarter. I don't need another one but would have been tempted to buy that anyway. I wanted an example of the first one for my US Type. 89,235 mintage. This 1831 was an ICG AU-50 I cracked out. Sent to NGC and came back AU-53.
Here is the size comparison between the older original style and the newer style that came out in 1831. 2.7 mm dia. difference and nice rims added on the later ones.
I already posted this one but was inspired to take it out of the 2x2 for the first time since 1972. It was fun to hold it, feel the reeding, and contemplate how it was first spent 190 years ago. Likely it was once in the pocket of an ancestor, as my family had been here for 200 years by then. I've ID'd it as Browning 7, with no dot after C, and it's nice how it has the broken U and filled N seen on other examples. Probably F Details cleaned/rim damage, but who cares, it's mine.
