Does anyone have access to an unslabbed 1827/3/2 copper quarter?

firstmint

....so that a reed count can be ascertained?

I'm aware of the whereabouts of only one of the five pieces known. It is in a slab and the owner doesn't wish to remove it.

Can anyone tell me of other current owners?

Please pm me, if need be, for confidentially.

Thank you so much.

tradedollarnut

I used to own one ... but it was slabbed as well.

MrEureka

Perhaps there's a copper one in the Simpson Collection. TDN, can you help out?

MrEureka

Unfortunately, I do not know where this one is...

MrEureka

According to uspatterns.com, there's one at the Connecticut State Library. BTW, I'd be glad to join you for that road trip!

firstmint

Steve Tompkins and I have been trying to contact the CSL about the Mitchelson coin. We only get a message or recording when we make a phone call to them.

Perhaps someone who lives in or around the Hartford CT area can provide a sure-fire way to contact them, as this may be the only example still outside a slab.

Previous cataloguers have mentioned that the edge is reeded, but not from a normal collar. Since the planchets used were reportedly thicker than normal for these restrike quarters, added to the fact that the 1827/3/2's were larger in diameter than anything then being produced, it remains an area that has not had any proper research done. I wish cataloguers would catalogue the entire coin.

The first one of the copper restrikes appeared in Haseltine's February 1877 sale. A second example appeared right afterwards in Ed Cogan's April 1877 sale and was illustrated.

In 1876, there were quarter dollars coined at the Carson City Mint which had 153 reeds on the edge, as opposed to the normal 113. This is a unique occurance, and all are scarce items.

Presuming that the Phiilly Mint was the one responsible for creating the collars for the Branch Mints, the questions is, did the Philly Mint create more than one "different reeded" edge collar that year for the copper restrike 1827/3/2 quarters?

RichieURich

<< <i>. . . In 1876, there were quarter dollars coined at the Carson City Mint which had 153 reeds on the edge, as opposed to the normal 113. This is a unique occurance, and all are scarce items. . . . >>



Firstmint, good luck finding the unslabbed 1827/3/2 copper quarter. However, the 1876-CC quarter with "fine reeding" is in fact a very common variety, and it should carry no premium vs. a regular 1876-CC quarter.

firstmint

Thanks for the correction.

I remembered reading years ago (probably in a weekely trade publication article) that the fine edge reeding pieces from CC were not very plentiful.

RichieURich

<< <i>Thanks for the correction.

I remembered reading years ago (probably in a weekely trade publication article) that the fine edge reeding pieces from CC were not very plentiful. >>



That error is said in Breen's Encyclopedia, but it is corrected in Briggs' book on Liberty Seated Quarters.