1864 25C J-386 PR(PCGS#60557)

Summer 2025 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

6596

Grade

PR66

Price

7,200

Lot Description

<strong>Obv:</strong> The Liberty Seated design used to strike regular issue 1864 quarters. <strong>Rev:</strong> The Motto design type adopted for regular issue Liberty Seated quarter production in 1866. A richly original, visually appealing Gem with the most vivid colors reserved for direct lighting angles. One of the so-called "transitional" patterns about which the <em>uspatterns.com</em> website notes the following:<p><em>These and the other "with motto" patterns of this date and also 1863 and possibly 1865 are actually restrikes made circa 1869 and into the early 1870s and offered with restrikes of other denominations in complete sets. The reverse die used here is the same as on the 1869 and 1870 trial pieces with die rust between the eagle's right (observer's left) wing and the olive branch. The die state is later than on the 1869 pieces.</em><p>Silver impressions, as here, have an extant population of only about a dozen specimen.