Any Standing Liberty Quarter Collectors

[Dana]

Are there any other Standing Liberty Quarter collectors?

I really prefer the design of the 1917 Type one because this is the artist's true rendition. Just a beautiful design. It may also be the bare breast and the belly button too, LOL (two beautiful areas of the female body).

Anyone have any opinions to share or collections to talk about?

[GarryN]

Hi Dana,

I love SLQs too. But I only have one right now. I like the Type 1 for obvious reasons, but I also think the reverse is one of the best renditions of the eagle on any coin. I think its better than the St Gaudens double eagle design. Its a shame mint state examples are so expensive. I will get a couple more eventually. Anyway, Im sure you are aware that JH Cline's site has some great photos of SLQs and sobering prices. Interesting comment though, why do they track Full Head (FH) and not Full Belly Button? (FBB)

http://www.slqs.com/

[Dana]

Thanks for the reply Gary. I like the idea of full belly button too, LOL. It is ashame that the Standing Liberty Quarters are so expensive. They really are scarce and the slabbed ones are super expensive. I think the trick is to try and buy some nice unslabbed ones, but even then, the FH examples are still expensive.

I also checked out the link you provided by the way. They do have some nice pics.

[Robert]

That's a great series. I like the artwork. Plus, I like the low mintages. Pre-1925 SLQs are hard to find w/ dates, and just about any mintmarked coin is scarce. Scarcer than prices indicate, IMO.

[coppercoins]

If only I had the money to collect them in a respectable grade, I'd be all over them. I would have to have EF or better specimens, though, and I would want to collect a matched set...and some dates are prohibitive in that grade.

[Dana]

I agree with Robert 100%. The surviving Standing Liberty Quarters, especially in Mint State, are scarcer than prices indicate. I've read references that folks were pulling coins from their collections during the Great Depression because times were so tough. And also, it seems that there were not a lot of coins collected in full rolls at that time either.

In mint state with full luster, the 1917 Type I is by far one of America's most beautiful coins. And the bare breast was so progressive for the time, don't you think? What would happen today if we tried to get a bare breasted coin past Congress? Bill Clinton couldn't even get one intern past them, LOL.

[GarryN]

Dana, maybe we should start a lobby to declare the 1917 Type 1 "the Janet Jackson quarter" If the Mint tried to recreate that quarter today, the FCC would be trying to get jurisdiction and Colin Powell Junior would shut down the US economy.

[Dana]

Garry,

LOL. Lets start a movement. It is amazing that in such a progressive country, nudity can cause such a stir. I wonder if Colin Powell Junior would team up with the Bush girls?

[drwstr123]

[GarryN]

Awesome, awesome coin, Drwstr. that should be a plate coin somewhere.

Im going to buy one at the next Mid America coin show. I dont care if its full head or not. Dave Bowers likes to make the point that full head gets more attention than full details. He said that a fully struck shield and fully struck eagle is more important to him than full head. Getting the three of them in one coin, he said, is the ultimate goal.

[drwstr123]

Garry, First of all, thank you, and I'm glad you can enjoy it. They, to me, have always been the most beautiful of coins. Probably why I despise the Washington the way I do. I was fortunate to get this on eBay. It was advertised as MS63 but as you can see it is clearly AU58(PCI). I wasn't disappointed because of the raw beauty of it and had it slabbed to check on cleaning. I only wish I could afford more. Sincerely, Mike

[coop]

I like the pattern on the Obverse near the rim. Great details. A coin I like but could never afford. But it is a beautiful coin.

[drwstr123]

Coop- You'd be suprised at the bargins still out there. Instead of spending large money, spend time and seek them. I can't help myself showing this next coin. I bouht it on eBay as a 1922D Lincoln, PCGS MS63BN. Can you see the look on my face when this came in the mail?

[GarryN]

Is that the "Weak D" variety?

[drwstr123]

Yes.