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So I dug a Standing Liberty quarter today...
It has no date, so I look online to see what I can figure out. It has the three stars below the flying eagle on the reverse, so it is a Type 2. This eliminates 1916, leaving 1917 to 1930. The worn off date area is the raised type; not the recessed type. According to one site, they changed that in 1925, so I can narrow my range to 1917 - 1925. My quarter also has a D mint mark. So, looking at the years they minted these quarters in Denver, my possible years are 1917D, 1918D, 1919D, 1920D, or 1924D.
This brings me to the value question: All of these 5 dates, in "fine" to "very fine" condition, are fairly valuable.(from maybe $60 to over $100) So if I can narrow it down to one of these 5, but can't get a year off it, is the value still in the same ballpark, or does it drop right down to the standard 6 or 8 bucks?
My microscopic inspection has me thinking 1924, but not certain.
It has no date, so I look online to see what I can figure out. It has the three stars below the flying eagle on the reverse, so it is a Type 2. This eliminates 1916, leaving 1917 to 1930. The worn off date area is the raised type; not the recessed type. According to one site, they changed that in 1925, so I can narrow my range to 1917 - 1925. My quarter also has a D mint mark. So, looking at the years they minted these quarters in Denver, my possible years are 1917D, 1918D, 1919D, 1920D, or 1924D.
This brings me to the value question: All of these 5 dates, in "fine" to "very fine" condition, are fairly valuable.(from maybe $60 to over $100) So if I can narrow it down to one of these 5, but can't get a year off it, is the value still in the same ballpark, or does it drop right down to the standard 6 or 8 bucks?
My microscopic inspection has me thinking 1924, but not certain.