Top 25 Liberty Seated Quarter Varieties - Pricing Guide

Liberty Seated coinage variety collecting is becoming well established with a host of popular varieties command ing significant premiums in the market place. For Liberty Seated quarters, there are many challenging varieties including the 1842-O Small Date, 1861 Type II Obverse/Type I Reverse and of course, the 1854-O Huge O variety being well known and bringing a substantial premium though not being rare.

The challenge for variety collectors is having an appropriate pricing guide by which to judge fair value of Top 25 Varieties purchases or resale to other collectors. The Top 25 Liberty Seated Quarter varieties pricing guide has been assembled by variety experts in the Liberty Seated Collectors Club. Greg Johnson is the well known authority on Seated quarter after publishing the Top 25 Varieties in the #111 Gobrecht Issue. Greg also writes the monthly Seated Quarter of Month column in the LSCC's E-Gobrecht electronic newsletter. Gerry Fortin is the well known authority for Liberty Seated Dime varieties and established the Top 100 Dime Varieties dating back to 2002. Today the Top 100 varieties are activity sought after by a host of variety collectors. Gerry established a Top 100 Varieties Pricing Guide to bring about a realistic market place for trading or selling these interesting dime varieties.

Please remember that listed prices are for nice problem free original coins rather than examples that have been cleaned or have other problems. For problem coins, one should typically downgrade pricing by one full grading increment.

 

Base pricing from PCGS Pricing Guide

Premiums are based on estimated Top 25 Varieties rarity and current understanding of dealer pricing and recent transactions

Click on the underlined date to see Greg Johnson's Quarter of Month article for each Top 25 variety (when available)

Variety Number

Date

Variety Type

VG 8

F 12
VF 20
EF 40
AU 50
MS 60

1

1839

Very Long Claws

125

215
385
600
1200
2500

2

1840-O

With Drapery, Large O Mintmark

1200

2200
3000
7000
10000
15000

3

1841-O

Doubled Die Obverse

95

135
200
350
500
1000

4

1842-O

Small Date

1300

2100
3250
7250
10000
37500

5

1843-O

Large O Mintmark

450

950
1350
3000
5000
8500

6

1844-O

Large O Mintmark, Rev of 1843

300

600
1200

2000

-
-

7

1847/47

Repunched Date, Doubled Die Rev

150
185
240

325

600

1200

8

1848

Repunched Date, Compass Point Reverse

60
100
200
400
800
1600

9

1850

Misplaced 1 Digit on Rim

65
80
175
300
450
1200

10

1852

Repunched Date, Proofs and Business

195
350
750
1150
1750
2500
11

1853

No Arrows
1700
2350
3500
5000
7000
9000
12

1853/4

Overdate
130
210
350
650
900
2300
13

1853-O

Filled O Mintmark
120
250
500
1000
2400
-
14

1853-O

Final Mintmark over Horizontal O
120
250
400
850
2400
-
15

1854-O

Huge O Mintmark
1600
2350
3500
7500
12500
-
16

1854-O

Crumbled Obverse Die
120
240
500
850
1400
-
17

1856

Misplaced Flag of 1 Digit on Gown
50
95
145
225
350
700
18

1856-S/s

Large S over Small s
850
1600
3200
6000
-
-
19

1857

Smoking Liberty
75
110
150
300
500
780
20

1857

Reverse Clash w/Flying Eagle Cent
150
250
450
800
2000
4000
21

1861

Type II Obverse with Type I Reverse
75
150
250
375
500
780
22

1873

No Arrows, Closed 3
400
650
1250
3500
5000
18000
23

1877-S

Final S over Horizontal S
45
98
125
285
400
775
24

1878-CC

Canceled Obverse Die
150
210
300
420
560
1850
25
1891
Misplaced 89 Digit in Denticles
65
90
200
400
600
800

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