Liberty Standing Quarters

I only have three SLQ's, I only need three; Type I (bare breast/no stars underneath the eagle), II (chain mail added/three stars underneath eagle) and (unoffically) III (recessed date).

A series collection of the SLQ's is a formidable task, only 52,000 could ever be put together and who knos how many of th 1916's are not available for inclusion in one of those collections.

You are off to a great start!

I have 29 LSQ's with condition mostly in F or VF condition. I have one in AU and a few in EF. I have very nice 1927D and 1927S and these are pretty scarce coins, but the date are protected and strong. You get to the 1923S, 1921, 1919D or 1919S it will cost between 600-1500 to get them in EF and the mintage is much higher than the 1927S. I have found the coin shows around here to have dealers who want retail prices. I do need to get out and get to the shows anyway. I can't just depend on ebay and a few LCS's.

Quite a few no-date and partial-date examples of many Type 2's and probably some Type 1's were melted in the mid to late 70s and a few more from 2011-2013.

Most are now so scarce that you don't see them with junk silver lots, even the no-dates. I remember being able to buy rolls of "slicks" for slightly over spot.

I have a 1926, 1926-S, 1927, 1929, and 1930, all circulated and raw, the best is the 1930 at a raw VF30. The market on Type 1's, scarcer date/MM combos from Type 2/3, and any FH coin is still very strong, with FH designated coins selling well all the way back into the lower AU grades.

When my father was still around, he told me that even as a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s these were not common in change, and that he found IHC's and Buffalos and even V nickels more often than he found SLQ's. I lost the 1 SLQ he had saved from back then, when our family home was burglarized in the late 80s and they stole most of the silver coins (but missed or skipped the LWC's in Whitman folders.)

My grandfather on my mom's side ran a body shop for 30+ years from the 50s to the 80s. He used to put aside silver he received in change back when it was still common. I inherited that, eventually - I got a roll or so of well-worn Morgan dollars and Peace dollars, a baggie full of silver Roseys & Georges, about a roll and a half of 90 & 40 kennedy's...a few IHC's, a Franklin, a few Buffaloes and exactly zero SLQ's.

It would seem that they were just not all that common in circulation even back then, which makes sense given the mintages and how fast the dates wore off. I think you'd have to go back to the 30s or maybe early 40s to still find them in change.

To me, any well struck, good condition, full date SLQ is a keeper, whether it's a F-12 or a MS-65.

25c was still a decent amount of money, relatively speaking, in 1916-1917. There were far, far more nickels in circulation than quarters. This had another interesting side effect: when the Morgan dollar was reintroduced in 1921, and the Peace in 1922 (technically), it dropped the interbank circulation of Walking halves substantially. This means that more AU and MS examples survived for later date Walkers than the pre-1921 coins.

I'm an avid collector of Standing Liberty quarters. I have 11 in VF-20 or better in my collection, including 5 that are MS-63 or better (four slabbed). I selected the uncirculated ones for a combination of strike and brilliance (as little toning as possible), and my best is a 1917-P, Type 1, FH, MS-65 (NGC). I also collect these by type, and four of them are 1920 or earlier.

I have no aspirations to complete a date set. My satisfactions is with owning a smaller number of choice examples. If I pushed myself to try to complete a date/mint mark set, I think I would end up with about a quarter of the set being problem coins (cleaning, damage, etc.), and that would nag at me.

I love the SLQ design, and the whole renaissance-era of US coins (there is a book, for those not aware: Renaissance of American Coinage 1916-1921). However, the Walking Liberty half dollar is my overall favorite coin design.

Paralyse, it will be a long time untill I can say those words LOL! Please post pics when/if you get one!

I bought a 1917D type 11 for 91 dollars off ebay. It has a strong date which is what I like. Nobody else bidded on this item. I also see a 1924D for $100 from Mexico. No one else is bidding on it and it has a strong date. Is this because it is from Mexico? I am still looking for Unc. Morgans for more common dates. I would also like to complete a Buffalo nickel and Mercury dime set. These are the coins I saw wild when I was a kid. I saw very few LSQ's with dates even in the late 50's and 60's.