1907 $2.50 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle PCGS MS67

Here is a truly beautiful example from the final year of the extensive Liberty head quarter eagle series. Imagine having this piece in your collection. PCGS has graded 134 as MS67 with just 16 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $3,750.00 in MS67.

The Second Philadelphia Mint, where this beauty was struck in 1907. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

The long-lasting durability of the Liberty head 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.