1916 Liberty Standing Quarter

So how many are left with good dates? I need this coin to complete my LSQ set, but the price for a coin with just a readable date is hard to accept. Someone must have an idea of how many of these coins exist in order to price them. I do know the price of the five most expensive LSQ's are, of course, those with vulnerable dates. These coins keep going up sharply in value I am told by my LCS. I see it is almost impossible to get a decent one on ebay for less than $500 even for 1919D or 1919








Somebody must have an idea of how many of these coins exist with good dates in order to price them don't you think? I know the price of a 1921 with mintage of 1,916,000 is $800 bucks just in EF condition, and prices are also high for 1919D, and 1919S. The prices are going up I guess because this is a popular coin. 1927S LSQ is also expensive in EF condition and more expensive than most with vulnerable dates.

The SLQ series is one tough nut. most early dates are worn down because of the mints first making the date higher than rest of coin. this changed in 1924 or 25 when they realized this and made the date recessed to prevent excessive wear.
there are also key and semi key dates that are costly.
because of the SLQ's design , they are very sort after by collectors. this also keeps prices up.
but your question: how many 1916 SLQ's in existence right now with readable dates, IMHO maybe half of it's original mintage. ( 26,000 ) through out the whole world.

People who have large amounts of junk silver might be secretly laying on a nice gem key date 1916 T1. There are distinct ways on IDing a 1916T1 and a 1917T1 from each other.

Whenever I see a dateless SLQ T1 in the quarter bin at my LCS, I'm always excited, since they most likely wouldn't have caught it.