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1796 Draped Bust Quarter MS-61 From Frost Collection Among Top Draws At Heritage Auction April 3-6

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Heritage Auctions -Among the highlights of Heritage's April 3-6 US coins SignatureŽ Auction will be a stunning specimen of the uncommon B-1 variation of a 1796 quarter.

One of the rarest of its kind, the presented 1796 Quarter Dollar, PCGS MS61 is from the Frost Collection.

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"The B-1 is the rarer variety, especially for those graded in Mint State, with about one-third as many examples as there are of the B-2," explains Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Todd Imhof. "This example is extraordinary, tied at the low end of the Rea-Polizio-Moulton Census, behind only four MS63 examples and one MS66 coin."

Due to the low original mintage, there are probably only 100 Mint State 1796 quarters left in existence. However, given all the factors that make this issue highly collectible, there aren't nearly enough uncirculated examples to meet demand, which makes examples like the one up for auction very desirable to serious collectors.

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There were only two die pairs for this issue. Only the obverse dies were different. Something interesting from modern research about the 1796 quarters is that the B-2 die pair was the first one in production with B-1 joining production later. While the B-1 is rarer, one usually gets a first year issue because they are looking for the earliest quarters produced by the U.S. Mint. In that regard, one would be looking for B-2 rather than B-1. It is also incredible that Eliasberg owned the SP66 graded version of the B-1 variety of this coin.
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