The Early Quarter Dollars of the United States

Quarter Dollars of 1824

The number of pieces coined during this year is not given in the Mint record. In ordinary or worn condition this coin appears oftener than the quarter of 182, but is rarer if sharp.

One variety only, is known.

Reverse of 1823, reworked by Kneass: upper arrow shaft normal, lowest arrowhead normal but with die file mark from lower barb toward olive stem.

The Browning plate coin is apparently the one Browning bought from David Proskey in 1917 as "VF" for $12.

No. 1

Obverse: 1824 over 182, the top of 2 showing under 4 at left, but is rather poor as an overdate. The die varies from that of 1822 and 1823; date is closer; upper right star is further from cap.

Reverse: Ends of scroll: left about opposite extreme left of D; (end not in line with upright) right is about opposite the extreme right of A. On scroll: I part way under space between A and T; S about centered under S. A small mark in relief extends out from bottom of lower arrowhead toward end of olive branch; also a small mark in relief extending up from top of scroll slanting to right, between S on scroll and last S in STATES.

Dies perfect. Date Scarce when worn by circulation, but very rare if sharp.

The Haseltine Type Table of 1881, Lot 1331, mentions a brilliant proof of this coin which sold for $34.

Dies perfect. Date Scarce when worn by circulation, but very rare if sharp.

The Haseltine Type Table of 1881, Lot 1331, mentions a brilliant proof of this coin which sold for $34.

Best mintage estimate: included among 24,000 delivered December 1825 – the initial delivery following the 1823-1824 hiatus. Only the one variety; spine from arrow barb and chip between final S in STATES and S of motto are diagnostic.
Browning-1; Clapp-1; Duphorne-47; Breen-3907; Haseltine-1.
Rarity-3.
Die States: I. Perfect; repunching on 8 (fades).
II. Clash marks in various areas, plainest from cap among arrows.
The cracks on obverse, claimed in WGC:84, are unidentified, and most likely to be clash marks.
Proofs: Only one reported, ex Haseltine Type Table:1331, R. Coulton Davis, Davis-Graves:333, Auction '86:128, $11,000. EPC.

Business strikes are usually in lower grades; prohibitively rare in Mint State.

1. Mougey:689, Clapp, Eliasberg Estate.
2. Boyd, WGC:83.
3. Parmelee:954 (illustrated)
4. "Dupont":1799. Prooflike.
5. Holmes:2937, not illustrated.
6. Gardner:1627, not illustrated.
7. Schenkel:1433. AU+. Prooflike.
8. Norweb:1539. AU+.

On the occasion of General Lafayette's triumphal return to America (1824), many cents and fewer silver coins (half dimes through half dollars) were counterstamped with heads of Washington and Lafayette. Quarter dollars are rumored for dates 1818, 1820, 1821. However, it is exceedingly unlikely that any would exist dated 1824 because of when the quarters of this date were made.

Numerical Condition Census (RWM, Sr. [circa 1992]): 62, 60, 58PL, 58, 55+, 55PL.