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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
Edited by numismatic student
01/10/2020 2:18 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1361 Posts |
The wear seems quite uneven to me. Coin is possibly bent? The obverse hair and face details are still there but the rest has heavy wear, but on the reverse has opposite wear.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5825 Posts |
Photos are a bit blurry but I think it'll make G-04.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Could be bent for sure. Otherwise, agree G-04, but possibly cleaned?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
11898 Posts |
With some color correction of overexposed images.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I'm going to get beat up on this one. this one is an enigma to me. the details of the eye, mouth, hair, date and especially nose are saying VF20 range. to me this coin appears to be very weakly struck on both sides, however when looking at the coin overall the wear appears to be extensive. maybe it has something to do with what was going on at the mint at that time. confused as to actual grade...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
1851 Posts |
As others have pointed out, the coin displays a very unsual, uneven wear pattern. Strange color, and to be honest, not an appealing coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
An interesting anecdote tied to this coin is that during this time, silver coins were minted at the request of silver depositors. Mintage figures indicate that the quarter was not a popular denomination for coinage.
According to Mint records, in 1815, the Planters Bank of New Orleans deposited $15,000 in silver bullion at the Mint and requested all of it to be returned in quarters. This would have filled 60,000 of the 89,235 coins produced.
The Planters Bank of New Orleans is well known to numismatists to have counterstamped coins and many 1815 quarters are found with a single letter countermark.
Edited by numismatic student
01/10/2020 3:00 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
Steve Tompkins in his Early Quarters reference book includes correspondence between Bailly Blanchard of the Planters Bank of New Orleans and Robert Patterson, then the U.S. Mint Director. In the correspondence Blanchard pleads for the return of the bullion in coined quarters and Patterson eventually acquiesces to the request. Apparently there were no quarter dies on hand in 1815 and Patterson commissions the production of the one die pair known (B-1). Thus, it appears that but for Blanchard's pleadings, we may not have had a quarter minted in 1815.
The issue still stands as an island in the period between 1807 and 1818 as the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars were winding down.
Edited by numismatic student
01/10/2020 2:37 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
coin showed up swirls from harsh cleaning. returned it and seller didn't object. disappointed.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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wow, they sure didn't show up in any of your photos. definitely a details coin
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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F-12 details, the wear pattern shows the coin was bent.
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