Historical Indian peace medals at Stack's Bowers
Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered Indian peace medals at its June 13 Numismatic Americana and Early American Coins session
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered Indian peace medals at its June 13 Numismatic Americana and Early American Coins session
Today, CoinWeek IQ discusses the 1864-S Seated liberty quarter, the rarest silver quarter of the type from the San Francisco Mint.
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 suspected that, decades later, the coins would be sought-after by collectors interested in their scar...