With only 396,000 ever produced, the 1927-S had the lowest mintage of the Standing Liberty quarters.
While 1,836,000 quarters were produced in San Francisco in 1919, the date on many of these has worn off.
The San Francisco Mint produced 72,664 quarters in 1901, and most of them were placed in circulation.
The 1927-S is one of the rarest of the Standing Liberty quarters. These coins possessed some of the weakest strikes, due to the complexity of the design.
The New Orleans Mint produced 382,200 of these before the design was changed to add an extra fold of drapery under Liberty’s right elbow.
This coin is the finest example of only four proof quarters known to exist from this year. One of them is held at the Smithsonian Institution.
The obverse is that of the 1828 B-1 and B-2 marriages while the reverse had last been used for the 1822 B-2 variety.
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