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Message:: [QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 560303, member: 5233"]This is the Red Book:  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Official-Red-Book-United-States/dp/0794824943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238724789&sr=8-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Official-Red-Book-United-States/dp/0794824943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238724789&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Official-Red-Book-United-States/dp/0794824943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238724789&sr=8-1</a> It's the first book anyone who is interested in US coins should get.  It gives a little information about each coin design, basic grading and lists values...the values need to be taken with a grain of salt because the book is printed annually, but overall I think it's OK as a general price guide. Value is completely dependent on condition.  With the 1841 Seated Liberty Quarter, first you need to find out if it has a mint mark.  On the reverse, at the bottom there will be the words "QUAR. DOL."  Above and between the R and D might be a small O, if there is one the coin was made in New Orleans.  If there isn't, the coin was made in Philadelphia.  This will also be a factor in the value as the Philadelphia minted coin is worth more.  Without a picture it's hard to determine the value.  I assume the coin has probably been well circulated, so if that's the case I'd probably say a Philadelphia example is worth $70 or so and a New Orleans maybe $40.  But again, these are VERY rough estimates.  If you had pictures we could be a lot more accurate. To answer your question of "at the most how much could it be worth?"  According to the Red Book that I have (2007), the highest grade they list for the Seated Liberty Quarter is a MS63.  According to this book (which again, are just estimates from 2006), the 1841 is listed at $2000 while the 1841-O is listed at $1500.[/QUOTE]

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