Lot 1270
Stunning gem 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter with light rose toning. NGC graded MS-65 Full Head. The first year of the important Standing Liberty design in gem condition and with a full head on Liberty. Graced by a delicate rose hue over Liberty's healthy frame, with dancing luster in the fields. The coining presses stopped counting after just 52,000 of these rolled down the chute, most of which entered circulation. Before long a cry was heard from the local vice squad that Liberty was exposed, and that this would never do in our society. The engravers were called back, and Liberty was duly bound up in a chain mail blouse in early 1917. Hence these early issues are highly coveted as rare type coins, and as such they more purely represent Hermon MacNeil's original intentions. NGC has only graded 15 this high, with 5 graded higher in the full head category.
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