1916 25C Standing Liberty MS(PCGS#5704)

December 2025 Showcase Auction - The James A. Stack, Sr. Collection Part I

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

22060

Grade

MS63

Prix

16 200

Description du lot

This is an attractive Select Mint State example of the fabled 1916 Standing Liberty quarter that is sure to see spirited bidding. Satiny surfaces are strongly lustrous and brilliant. Boldly to sharply defined in most areas, we even note emerging definition to Liberty's head, the shield rivets, and the eagle's breast feathers. A visually appealing example of this key date issue whose offering in this sale represents a significant find for discerning Standing Liberty quarter enthusiasts.<p>This popular and eagerly sought issue hails from an era that numismatic researcher Roger W. Burdette has dubbed the Renaissance of American Coinage. The year 1916 saw the introduction of three of the designs that collectors generally agree number among the most beautiful ever struck in the United States Mint: Adolph A. Weinman's Mercury dime and Walking Liberty half dollar, and Hermon A. MacNeil's Standing Liberty quarter. The last named was also the last produced, the initial mintage confined to the Philadelphia Mint and amounting to a scant 52,000 pieces. As these first Standing Liberty quarters were struck late in 1916, the coins were released the following year along with the initial batches of 1917 Type I examples. The simultaneous release seems to have resulted in the 1916 slipping past many contemporary Americans, most of whom set aside examples of the far more plentiful 1917 Type I issue as keepsakes of the new design. The result is that, while the high mintage 1917 Type I is one of the most common Standing Liberty quarters in Mint State, the low mintage 1916 is one of the scarcest. Highly ranked in rarity within the wider context of 20th century United States Mint coinage, as well, the inclusion of an Uncirculated 1916 Standing Liberty quarter has long been considered a mark of a significant numismatic collection.