United States 1867 quarter dollar

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 4156

This specimen was lot 4156 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $5,040. The catalog description noted, "1867 Liberty Seated Quarter. Briggs 1-A. AU-58 (PCGS). Iridescent steel-olive drifts over a base of silver-gray patina. At direct viewing angles the peripheries light up with reddish-gold and powder blue, the centers with softer champagne-pink. Sharply struck and near-fully lustrous, just a touch of friction and some wispy hairlines separate this coin from the Mint State category. These are scarce, as are all Reconstruction era Liberty Seated quarters from the Philadelphia Mint. Only 20,000 circulation strikes were produced in 1867, and attrition was high due to export and melting. Provenance: From the Steven Jay Ball Collection."

Specification: .

Recorded mintage: 20,000.

Catalog reference: .

Sources:

• Alexander, David T., Coin World Comprehensive Catalog & Encyclopedia of United States Coins, Sidney, OH: Amos Press, 1995.
• Breen, Walter H., Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins, New York: Doubleday, 1987.
• Harper, David C., ed., North American Coins & Prices: A Guide to U. S., Canadian and Mexican Coins, 17th Ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2007.
• Yeoman, R. S., and Kenneth Bressett (ed.), A Guide Book of United States Coins, 65th Ed., Atlanta, GA: Whitman Publishing, 2011.

Condition Census:

The following Condition Census lists the top ten finest 1867 Quarter Dollars as of 10/26/2022:

1. PCGS MS66

Heritage 11/2018:3060 (as NGC MS66 4632552001), $16,800 - Heritage 11/2021:3546 (as NGC MS66+ 4627764010), $22,200

2. PCGS MS64 OGH CAC

Heritage 4/2009:2342 (as PCGS MS64 OGH CAC 05346695), $14,950 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part I - Heritage 6/2014:30386 (as PCGS MS64 OGH CAC 50346695), $14,100

3. PCGS MS64 Rattler

Heritage 12/2010:3532 (as PCGS MS64 Rattler 01080628), $13,800 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part IV - Heritage 10/2015:98458 (as PCGS MS64 Rattler 01080628), $9,400 - Heritage 3/2016:4837 (as PCGS MS64 Rattler 01080628), $7,050 - D.L. Hansen Collection (PCGS Set Registry) (as PCGS MS64 Rattler 01080628)

4. PCGS MS64

Heritage 6/2019:3079 (as PCGS MS64 25658337), $6,600

5. PCGS MS63+ CAC

Stack’s 11/2010:510 - W.L. Carson Collection - Stack's 11/2010:5104 (as PCGS MS63+ CAC), $11,500 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part IV - Heritage 10/2015:98457 (as PCGS MS63+ 18031283), $6,463

6. PCGS MS63

Heritage 10/2010:3588 (as PCGS MS63 18057675), $6,325 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part IV - Heritage 10/2015:98456 (as PCGS MS63 18057675), $3,760 - Heritage 7/2016:3406 (as PCGS MS63 18057675), $3,290

7. PCGS MS63

Heritage 2/2008:362 (as PCGS MS63 OGH 08259826), $86,250 - Eugene H. Gardner Collection, Part II - Heritage 10/2014:98376 (as PCGS MS63 OGH CAC 08259826), $8,225

8. PCGS MS63

Lexington Collection - Heritage 11/2005:1266 (as NGC MS63 30834402), $3,220

9. PCGS MS62

Perry Creek Collection - Heritage 8/2010:4701 (as PCGS MS62 90113590), $3,450 - Heritage 2/2011:3552 (as PCGS MS62 90113590), $6,900

10. PCGS MS62

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