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<p>[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8314503, member: 116145"]Great topic! I love the history of coins and rarity makes them more interesting to me. I've got an ugly 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter, ICG FR02 Details, Damaged (my avatar) The 1916 Standing Liberty quarter is the first issue in the series. These coins were not struck until the last two weeks of 1916, and they were released in January, 1917. The mintage is consequently very low, a mere 52,000 coins, making this issue the lowest mintage by far in the Standing Liberty quarter series and indeed one of the lowest mintage U.S. coins of the 20th century (info from David Hall). The 1916s are even more rare because the dates wore off easily because of the raised design and a lot were melted down. I'm also fortunate to have a Details 1875 20 Cent Piece - Philadelphia mint - Mintage 36,910 and a Details ugly AG 1860-S Seated Liberty Quarter - Mintage 56,000, a cleaned MS60 1893 Isabella Quarter (Columbia Exposition Commemorative) Mintage 24,191 and some lower mintage Morgans, including a nice MS62 1884-CC Morgan $1 Mintage 1,136,000 and a really dinged up Details VG10 1893-O Morgan $1 Mintage 300,000. The 1893-O dollar posted the lowest mintage figure for any New Orleans Mint silver dollar of the Morgan design (from PCGS).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472083[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472085[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472088[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8314503, member: 116145"]Great topic! I love the history of coins and rarity makes them more interesting to me. I've got an ugly 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter, ICG FR02 Details, Damaged (my avatar) The 1916 Standing Liberty quarter is the first issue in the series. These coins were not struck until the last two weeks of 1916, and they were released in January, 1917. The mintage is consequently very low, a mere 52,000 coins, making this issue the lowest mintage by far in the Standing Liberty quarter series and indeed one of the lowest mintage U.S. coins of the 20th century (info from David Hall). The 1916s are even more rare because the dates wore off easily because of the raised design and a lot were melted down. I'm also fortunate to have a Details 1875 20 Cent Piece - Philadelphia mint - Mintage 36,910 and a Details ugly AG 1860-S Seated Liberty Quarter - Mintage 56,000, a cleaned MS60 1893 Isabella Quarter (Columbia Exposition Commemorative) Mintage 24,191 and some lower mintage Morgans, including a nice MS62 1884-CC Morgan $1 Mintage 1,136,000 and a really dinged up Details VG10 1893-O Morgan $1 Mintage 300,000. The 1893-O dollar posted the lowest mintage figure for any New Orleans Mint silver dollar of the Morgan design (from PCGS). [ATTACH=full]1472082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472083[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472085[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1472088[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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