Time to See Your Silver Washington Quarters

A set of Proofs I picked up a while back...(that's the eBay photo...they look much better in person.)

 

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Silvers or Clads?

 

Sorry...1950 - 1964 (silver)

 

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do for my proof quarters. I have a complete circulation slabbed set I'm due to inherit from my grandfather and his are all NGC so ill probably go that route as well and just pick up singles until statehood and then do the multi packs til the stopped slabbing like that, them pick back up wit individual coins.

I'm actually creating a custom registry on NGC for a particular set of Washington Quarters.

1932-1964 all circulation issues

1936-1964 all proofs if issued

1976 40% MS strike and 40% PF strike

1992-1999 all proof issues individual slabs

1999- gather at least all SH quarters in the NGC Multi-holder, switching back to individual slabs when forced to.

I have a counting spreadsheet for this too. Setup so you can keep track of which ones you have, which ones you need, percent complete, etc

 

The only decent part of my collection

 

My only Washington....oops, I forgot to add the D.............

 

this guy came out of a mint set that arrived in the mail yesterday

 

Looks like a Proof...

 

oops, that's correct - it was a 1961 proof set

 

1951 Proof


1952 "Super Bird"


1953 Proof


1954 Proof

 

What's a 'Super Bird'?

 

A super bird is a great name given to what I consider a minor effect on the reverse of some 1952-S proof WQs. There is a small impression on the center of the eagle's breast that looks like an S. It is difficult to see in most images and can be tough to see in-hand, too, but is definitely easier to see in-hand. Given the placement of the mark, the super bird name was given and this has, in my opinion, spurred the popularity of the coin. At one time both PCGS and NGC would designate super bird on the slab, but I think both have now changed their decisions and do not do so anymore.

 

I've had this 1951 sitting on my table waiting to be photographed

 

Three of my favorites, the 1934 is the lt motto variety and all of them were rescued at different times from a dealer who loves to dip his coins because "most people want blast white."

 

All are Gemmy for sure!**********

 

I love silver bicentennial quarters. They are the only 40% silver quarters ever minted by the US mint, which makes them special and unique. I didn't even know they existed until I found one at work in a roll of ordinary quarters. I save every bicentennial coin I find, and I bought this one and thought it was an ordinary clad business strike quarter. For some reason, I took it out of my pocket and looked at it later and noticed that it looked odd. It had a duller shine than cupronickel quarters, and there was no copper visible on the edge of the coin. It made a different sound when dropped than a regular cupronickel quarter. I took some pictures and posted them on this forum, and several posters verified that it was a 40% silver business strike, minted in San Francisco. Out of all my finds, this one is easily top 5 if not top 3. I have since purchased a silver 1976-S proof, a clad 1976-S proof, and a MS silver business strike with an S mintmark, completing my collection of bicentennial quarters along with ordinary D and P produced coins.

 

I love silver bicentennial quarters. They are the only 40% silver quarters ever minted by the US mint, which makes them special and unique. I didn't even know they existed until I found one at work in a roll of ordinary quarters. I save every bicentennial coin I find, and I bought this one and thought it was an ordinary clad business strike quarter. For some reason, I took it out of my pocket and looked at it later and noticed that it looked odd. It had a duller shine than cupronickel quarters, and there was no copper visible on the edge of the coin. It made a different sound when dropped than a regular cupronickel quarter. I took some pictures and posted them on this forum, and several posters verified that it was a 40% silver business strike, minted in San Francisco. Out of all my finds, this one is easily top 5 if not top 3. I have since purchased a silver 1976-S proof, a clad 1976-S proof, and a MS silver business strike with an S mintmark, completing my collection of bicentennial quarters along with ordinary D and P produced coins.

 

Here are some quarters I bought from a fellow forum member. They don't look like this anymore, but I'm not going to post the "after" pictures because I cleaned them and they look 100 times better than they did. Last time I posted pictures of them, certain forum members acted like I had punched a baby. This is what they looked like when I got them. Awful.

 

stored in a rusting can?