My New 1917 Standing Liberty Quarter

Circulated Standing Liberty quarters are one of my favorite coins. It brings back the feelings I had as an early teen, holding my SLQ in a 2x2 and staring at it for hours, when I see a coin like this.

And HESGUT, I think you should have chose a nicer avatar.

I have and I'm not too concerned about that. I know that whatever I do pay will be a bargain twenty some years from now if/when I ever decide to sell the set. For now this coin fits in this page perfectly.

Ed
ANA LM-3175

That coin has a lot of eye appeal. I think it is a very very nice problem free coin

Nice coin you have! If you are happy with it and the price you paid for it, then that is what matters, not what someone else would have done.

Although the shot was at me, I thought this was pretty funny. Actually, my avatar looks almost identical to the coin in question....my avatar might actually grade lower.

As far as my earlier point, I was merely stating my opinion that it was an odd choice for the 7070, I agree its a very nice coin. If this was a lower budget set I'd understand, but the OP indicated that it wasn't. There would be better representations of the type 1 SLQ for significantly less money than what he would have spent on other coins for the set. Many 7070 collectors choose to have all 20th century in BU. I was also slightly puzzled by the choice to buy this coin slabbed...it's never faked and may have just cost an additional $20 just to be broken out.

My opinion is not a reflection of the OP as a person nor is it a disdainful dislike of the coin, which happens to be part of my favorite series. I thought that's what these threads were for, to discuss things....not have 10 different posters say "nice coin"

At the coin show I was at yesterday I looked at three other supposedly VF 1917 Type I quarters and this was the only one that was pleasing to the eye and without problems. It also matches by grade the 1924 Type II SLQ next to it. I bought it from a dealer I have bought other pieces for my BU type sets I am working on.

The 19th and 20th Century type sets are mounted in the Capital Plastics #460A and B holders. The 460B is the older style for the 20th Century which does not include the State Quarters. This set I completed in March of this year and the SLQ in it is a 1920 MS-63FH. This 7070 set is a circulated set and at this point only two coins are BU which may not stay in by the time I'm done with it. They are 1943 steel Lincoln Cent and a 1943-S Jefferson wartime nickel. The coins in the in the 460A holder are at least MS-62 for the BU pieces and there will be about four or five which are price prohibitive and will be no less than AU. I have a guy holding a 2 cent piece and an 1875-CC Seated Liberty dime both MS-63 which I will probably acquire in the next week or so.

Ed
ANA LM-3175

Nice quarters!