What are some of the 'Big Name' Seated quarter collections?

stinkinlincoln

That have been sold within the past, say 50-60 years?


Thanks.

lathmach

Larry Briggs collection was auctioned by Heritage in September 1999.
I believe there were over 400 different examples.
I have over 700 Seated Quarters. They'll probably go in the next few years. I'm getting up in years, and my health isn't the best.

Ray

lathmach

Oh, by the way, Rhedden (a member here) bought a complete collection just within the past year. From whom I don't know.

Ray

MrEureka

The James Stack collection was pretty good. So was Eliasberg.

stinkinlincoln

Thanks guys. 700 Seated quarters? WOW! PM sent.
Any others? I want to get the auction catalogs if possible for some of them.

Whatafind

soon you my see the smoking seated liberty quarter be in top numbers.

rhedden

As lathmach mentioned, I bought a complete set missing only the 1873-CC NA last summer, from a personal friend. The set was assembled prior to 1960. The coins were a mixture of nice circ. key dates, gem proofs, some typical hairlined proofs, average cleaned circ. stuff, and a few horrible culls. I replaced the ugly ones, but my set is by no means one of the better ones out there. It would probably rank toward the lower end of the list of "complete" sets in existence (and there aren't many). There are only a few AU and Unc. coins in my set, and I'm missing most of the tough P-mint business strikes. Keep your eye out for lathmach's set, because he is a long-time collector and has a great deal of knowledge about this series. I bet his coins will knock your socks off.

Didn't Rich Uhrich have some excellent Seated quarters in his set sold last year?

Coinosaurus

Gardner (on the NGC registry) is the big one.

Notable sets sold in the last few years include Jim Gray (B&M), Richmond (DLRC), Burnham (DLRC - fixed price), Matthews (B&M - Schenkel catalog), Frog Run (ANR), Briggs (Heritage, mentioned above), and of course Eliasberg.

speety

<< <i>Gardner (on the NGC registry) is the big one. >>




You could say that for just about ANY set Dang impressive!

seateddime

<< <i>Gardner (on the NGC registry) is the big one.

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Dimes too

roadrunner

As far as the finest known specimens, these auctioned collections were the sources of a number of those... with approximate years:

Eliasberg 1997
James Stack 1975
Norweb 1988
John Pittman 1998
Reed Hawn 1973?
At-H20 1940's (had to list like that due to the forum word cops)
World's Greatest Collection (FCC Boyd) - 1940's
Gene Edwards 1982
Stadiem-Gardner early 1970's
Richmond 2006? (picked from some of the above collections)

Gene Gardner has many amazing seated quarters but is also collecting halves and dimes. This is where most of the finest seated quarters appearing in the last 6 yrs have been going. My former 1867-s now resides in Gene's set.

I'm sure there are others I'm not aware of or have missed. It seems the best seated quarters have sort of trickled into the market over the past 60 years.

The best specimens were very elusive until the larger collections started coming to auction in the late 1980's due to coin prices escalating. Pickings were quite slim in the 1970's and early 1980's. What's more, a number of those sales were comprised of many cleaned coins. When rare quarters showed up a 2nd time in the later 70's or 80's after having been part of "name" collections in the 50's and 60's and early 70's, they very often were cleaned. When the James Stack quarter collection appeared in 1975 (he had passed away in the 1940's) it was amazing to see so many unscrewed with coins. While it didn't have the quality breadth of Eliasberg (where John Clapp cherry picked coins from the mint and other sources decades earlier) it had many specimens that were unequaled. Stack's collection also included some very neat Barbers and SLQ's as well. He did all denominations as well and his sets were auctioned into the 1990's. Stack's gem 71-cc and 73-cc NA quarters were the highlights of that set. His superb gems of 1865-s, 67-s and 91-0 were no slouches either. His 1849-0 was also listed as a gem but it was actually an AU. It still fetched a ton for that time as there had not been a nicer one to hit the market. One interesting fact from the Stack sale was that among all his New Olreans seated quarters, only the 59-0 (bought by Reed Hawn I believe) and 91-0 were gems. Most of the others were just XF/AU or lower end MS specimens. That told me early on that trying to find choice or gem uncs of dates like 43-0, 47-0, 50-0, 51-0, 52-0, etc. was going to be very difficult.

roadrunner