New 1834 Capped Bust Quarter

I just purchased this capped bust quarter for my small collection of bust coinage. $142, which I think was reasonable. I will get a better pic of the reverse when I receive the coin.

Any comments, questions, critiques, concerns, etc?

 

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Use the upload a file at the bottom of each post.
your photos are kinda useless, without saving them to my computer

 

Is this what you mean?

 

It looks like you have already magnified your images, the software here is pretty good, There was a member (last post a while ago) that taught us how to take a 1:1 photo. That way it blows up when you click on the full image.

 

What coin is that? It looks uncannily similar to a Walking Liberty Half. And forgive me for hijacking this thread.

 

Same here.

 

French silver Franc if I’m not mistaken- late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Such a beautiful design- I’ve always thought it is like a more mysterious WLH.

 

Is this something that you just bought?
It looks nice, The circam is attractive.

 

That bust quarter looks very attractive!

 

Looks nice but I'll need better pics to offer an opinion.

 

The coin came in and it looks great! Really nice eye appeal. Now I just need to figure out how to get decent photos.

 

Looks great. I love bust quarters.

 

Still not fantastic pictures, but a bit better.

 

Bust quarters in general are rare in general. You don't always see them at a show.
They aren't like bust half's where a dealer has half of his case in inventory.
So a smart move picking one up when you did. Sweet coin nice pick

 

Nice coin.

 

This 1834 bust quarter of mine, purchased at a local show, has a grade of VF 25, but the one posted above, graded F 15, seems to look a little nicer in some ways. It may have higher contrast between the features and the field to bring out more details. I'm not sure, but it's interesting comparing the two.

 

They are certainly good enough to attribute the coin!... Browning-4, R1. It looks to be a very nice specimen.

This coin (Browning-1, R1) has one of the more interesting reverses used for the small capped bust quarters. This reverse was first used in 1833 and is often called the O/F variety, though the markedly different eagle (and lack of a period after “25 C”) is far more noticeable. This is also the only reverse with two line stripes (“two pale gules”) present in the shield. This reverse is thought to have possibly been made by Christian Gobrecht.

Part way through making 1834 quarters, the A in STATES and the first A in AMERICA were filled in this die. Eventually the die was lapped and the O/F was removed.

While 1834 B-1 is one of the most common (if not THE most common) die marriages for this series, its other peculiarities make up for it.

 

Very nice capped quarters. That was a good purchase, Mike.

I check my 1834 and it seems to be the same variety as yours (I noticed it has the break under the left wing as your example, so it is probably the same variety).