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1916 Standing Liberty quarter, Type 1 obverse dated 1916, reproduced from a 1976 auction catalog — another example of the same first-year issue; the tracked PCGS MS Full Head specimen is a different coin

1916 Standing Liberty Quarter

Maker
U.S. Mint (Philadelphia), designed by Hermon MacNeil
Year
1916
Rank
45 of 100

1916 Standing Liberty Quarter

1916 Standing Liberty Quarter by U.S. Mint (Philadelphia), designed by Hermon MacNeil (1916) is ranked 45 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It sold for $195,500 on 3 November 2010. The key date and first year of the celebrated Standing Liberty quarter; tiny mintage of 52,000.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

The key date and first year of the celebrated Standing Liberty quarter; tiny mintage of 52,000.

25c silver, Standing Liberty, Type 1, first-year key date, PCGS MS Full Head

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$195,500
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
3 November 2010

Bowers & Merena, Nov 3 2010. PCGS MS67 realized $195,500 — the MS auction record for the date. Mintage 52,000; the series key.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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