1898 25C AU58 Certification #21876650, PCGS #5619

JJ Teaparty. 11/98. Purchased raw. Submitted to ANACS and received a MS 61. Resubmitted to PCGS in 1/05 and it crossed as an AU 58. This is one of the nicest looking quarters in my collection having a bronze-gold toning on the obverse on the centrals and cobalt blue on the rims from star six at the left and running to star one and thru the date and up to star ten on the right - and - the reverse has light gold-champagne centrals with a medium bronze-gold rim toning. This coin should actually be in my # 1 set - but because of the 1898-P in PCGS MS 66 [ from my 1898 Mint Set ] displaced it, the coin 'resides' in the # 2 set. Somewhere along the way, I sold this coin as I didn't need another duplicate however just recently, while browsing my Quarter collection, there was an empty space in the series set [ the PCGS 66 was in the 1898 Mint Set ]. My lax record keeping still showed that I owned an AU 58 [ this coin ] and it was pure happen-stance that I located this coin on another website [ Eye Appealing Coins ]. The coin cost me $110 raw from JJ Teaparty in 1998; I must have sold it a couple of years back in the low $200's and now [ 12/11/09 ] - I had the priviledge of paying $300 for my own coin. Its still a very attractive coin, and now, its not going anywhere for a long, long time !!

Ron Guth

The 1898 Quarter Dollar is a great date among the Barber series.  It is common, it often comes nice, and there are ample supplies of Mint State examples in a variety of grades.  The most frequent Mint State grade is MS63, followed by MS62, then MS64.  Gem examples are slightly less common, but even the populations in MS65 and MS65 are large enough to keep prices at a reasonable level.  MS67 examples become quite rare and they are exceeded only by a couple of MS67+'s and a single PCGS MS68.  At these upper levels, the eye appeal on these coins is extraordinary.