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The 1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim is a valuable transitional version of the Saint-Gaudens double eagle that was struck on Medal Presses.

Today, CoinWeek IQ discusses the 1864-S Seated liberty quarter, the rarest silver quarter of the type from the San Francisco Mint.

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ...... Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * Numismatic promoter Farran Zerbe was hired by the Panama-Pacific Exposition

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ......   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * No World’s Fair before or since 1915 has garnered as much attention in

By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ......   Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 * * * How can we, as denizens of the 21st century, even fathom how an

By Q. David Bowers - Co-Founder, Stack's Bowers .....   Classic rarities among American silver coins have commanded attention for a long time. The

By Q. David Bowers - Co-Founder, Stack's Bowers .....   If you've been following the coin market in recent years, then you might know that the prices

In this CoinWeek exclusive, David Provost wraps up his Commemorative Coin Stories article on the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Coin Program.

United States 1864-S Seated Liberty Quarter San Francisco and along the West Coast were handling a rarity in the mid-1860s. As their counterparts in the east were vanishing from circulation during the Civil War, silver coins in San Francisco were circulating much more extensively – including the 1864-S Seated Liberty quarter, which turned out to be a major rarity. Consumers might have known that the freshly-struck quarters were prized in the east for their silver content but might not have s...