United States
¼ Dollar "Seated Liberty Quarter" · “Seated Liberty Quarter”
United States · 1838–1891 · Silver
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The Seated Liberty Quarter: A Coin That Outlived Its Century
In 1873, the Carson City Mint struck a few thousand quarters, then a new law changed the rules and almost all of them went back into the furnace. Fewer than ten are known today. That single date is the prize at the end of one of the longest, hardest, most rewarding runs in American coin collecting.
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