1903 $2.50 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle PCGS MS63

Attractive piece in the PCGS Old Green Holder!

Here’s a specimen to include in your collection, one that is attractive and more affordable. Please review the photos provided of this honey-golden 1903 quarter eagle. PCGS has graded 1,789 as MS63 with 2,858 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $740.00 in MS63.

The Third Philadelphia Mint, where this attractive piece was produced in 1903. 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.