1878 $2.50 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle PCGS MS64 (CAC)

This attractive golden treasure can be yours. Wouldn’t it look great in your collection? Please take a look at the photos of this piece, with its honey-golden coloration. PCGS has graded 215 as MS64 with 100 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $1,250.00 in MS64. In CAC, there are 56 in MS64 with 23 finer.

The Second Philadelphia Mint, where this piece was produced in 1878. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

The long-lasting durability of the Coronet design on the quarter eagle was unmatched in U.S. numismatic history until it was passed by the Roosevelt dime. This makes the Liberty quarter eagle the second longest uninterrupted use of a coin motif without a major design alteration.  When this issue was first struck in 1840, much of the United States was a rough and ready frontier, with millions of bison roaming the Great Plains.

When the final Coronet quarter eagles were minted in 1907, an amazing 67 years later, America was a very different nation than it had been in 1840. The rugged individualism that characterized 19th century America's national spirit remained, but it became a more mature nation, one that made its powerful economic and military presence known around the world.