Working On a Standing Liberty Quarters Registry Set

IF YOU’VE been reading my column in this magazine, you know that I was “turned on” to Standing Liberty quarters at the World’s Fair of Money ANA convention in August 2019. For some reason, I’ve always wanted a nice 1923-S quarter and have sort of idly looked at coins over the years in XF condition. The reason for that condition is that many coins I’ve seen in lower grades didn’t have a full, four-digit date.

At the convention in Rosemont, Ill., this year I happened to find myself at the table of a dealer who had both the 1923-S and the 1921 quarters in mint state, the former in MS-64 and the latter in MS-65. In addition, he was interested in several coins I had brought to sell or trade, the most valuable of which was a 1911-D quarter eagle in XF-45.

To make a long story short, I traded him my coins for the two Standing Liberty