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Message:: [QUOTE="Ed Sims, post: 1886258, member: 59688"]There were no quarters struck in 1931 due to the depression and the Washington quarter was struck to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. No quarters were struck in 1933 as there were more than enough struck in 1932 to satisfy the demand in circulation. As the economy slowly improved in 1934 rather than go back to the Standing Liberty design the Mint just continued to strike the Washington design. In the early 1970's when I was in high school I began to assemble a complete set of BU Washington quarters and considered it complete in 1980. It also included all of the proofs from 1936. My obsession with this series included discovering major varieties and collecting them before they were ever published. When the very first article about the heavy and light mottoes and other varieties were published in one of the numismatic publications my coin dealer mentor Mrs. R (Dorothy Robinson) said I already had all of them and I did. I even had some he was unaware of. I sold the album in the late 1980's.[/QUOTE]