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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 8451773, member: 116145&quot;]Well, they keep paying me and I&#039;m getting a bonus this month, so I pulled the trigger on what seemed like a great opportunity for me to complete the Standing Liberty Quarter collection.&nbsp; So it&#039;s Ramen &amp; PB&amp;Js this month!&nbsp; Based on Greysheet and past auction sales on Ebay, etc, I put in a lowball bid for this beautiful ugly holed old babe, and, to my surprise, I won it for hundreds less than I though it would go for (sale price $1663 plus $13 shipping).&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep looking in the wild (which is how I found the 1916) but I had to jump on this opportunity when I could - these don&#039;t come up often, especially with a really visible date / overstrike for less than $2,500/3,000.&nbsp; PCGS estimates the total population is 3000.&nbsp; This is the most expensive coin I&#039;ve purchased.</p><p><br /></p><p>From PCGS - David Hall: The 1918/7-S Standing Liberty quarter is one of the key date silver coin rarities of the 20th century. This variety was first noticed in the late 1930&#039;s and the first auction appearance was in December, 1937. Collectors began saving the few they could find in circulation. Today, the 1918/7-S is rare and relatively expensive even in the lowest grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>The funny thing about a &quot;complete&quot; collection - for me anyway, is it&#039;s not finished for me - now I&#039;m working on improving the set where I can - I&#039;d like to have most of the SLQs in AU or MS and as many Full Heads as I can get (I don&#039;t anticipate I&#039;ll be able to afford to improve the 1916, 18/7-S overdate, 1921 or 1923-S much, if at all) and now I may be able to focus on the Capped Bust Half Dollar collection.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to try and take some decent photos of the entire top set as it currently exists once I have this in hand.&nbsp; Do you all have any &quot;ugly&quot; treasures that you feel lucky to have, like I do this one?&nbsp; (sellers pics)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1497865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1497866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1497868[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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