The Early Quarter Dollars of the United States

No. 4

Two points of 13th star equally very close to curl.
Top arrowhead longest; die scratch extends it almost to border.
Browning-4; Clapp-4; Duphorne-83; included in Breen-3931; Haseltine-2.
Rarity-7, low.
Die States: I. Cracks as Browning describes. WGC:136.
II. "Additional obverse die crack." WGC:137. Untraced: but cf. NN 57:624, "readily identified by heavy cracks through first star, 6 cap, U and F."
The following are traced:
1. Fulton:835. "AU, cleaned." State II.
2. Bergen:97. EF.
3. NN 57:624. VF to EF. State I. Cherrypicked at the 1974 G.E.N.A. Convention.
4. Col. Green. VF to EF. State I. Plate VIII.
5. Boyd, WGC:137. Fine to VF. State II.
6. Winter Collection. Fine. State I. Cherrypicked at the 1974 G.E.N.A. Convention.
7. Leon Goodman:946, "VG-10," cleaned, retoning, hairline scratch in hair. Not illustrated.
8. Boyd. WGC:136. VG. State 1.

Numerical Condition Census (RWM, Sr. [circa 1992]): 45, 45, 45, 45, 40, 35.

Obverse die cracked in two places; across, top to bottom, over front part of cap and down over bust to lower edge almost touching 6 at right; second, from left edge through first star up to neck midway between chin and bosom. Reverse cracked as in No. 2, but second cracked (from left edge through U to eagle's wing) extends across the wing to shield.

Apparently a rare variety, but one specimen found.

Two points of 13th star equally very close to curl.

Top arrowhead longest; die scratch extends it almost to border.

Browning-4; Clapp-4; Duphorne-83; included in Breen-3931; Haseltine-2.

Rarity-7, low.

Die States: I. Cracks as Browning describes. WGC:136.
II. "Additional obverse die crack." WGC:137. Untraced: but cf. NN 57:624, "Readily identified by heavy cracks through first star, 6, cap, U and F."

The following are traced:
1. Fulton:835. "AU, cleaned." State II.
2. Bergen:97. EF.
3. NN 57:624. VF to EF. State II.
4. Col. Green. VF to EF. State I. Plate VIII.
5. Boyd, WGC:137. Fine to VF. State II.
6. Winter Collection. Fine. State I. Cherrypicked at the 1974 G.E.N.A. Convention.
7. Leon Goodman:946, "VG-10," cleaned, retoning, hairline scratch in hair. Not illustrated.
8. Boyd. WGC:136. VG. State 1.

Numerical Condition Census (RWM, Sr. [circa 1992]): 45, 45, 45, 45, 40, 35.

"B-5"

Obverse of B-4, reverse B-1. Discovered 1988 by Robert Spangler, published in John Reich Journal, v. 4, n. 2, p. 24. Rarity-8, two known.

Numerical Condition Census (RWM, Sr.): Recent Discovery.