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Coins/ Quarters / Early Quarters/ 1824/2

FINENESS .8924ASW 0.19336 OZT6.74 G

Overview History Varieties Key Dates Collecting Checklist References

Issue RecordKEY DATEPhiladelphia89.24% Silver1 of 32 issues

1824/2 Capped Bust, large size Quarter

The Mint delivered no quarter dollars at all in calendar 1824 — the Comptroller's settlement lists half dollars as the year's only silver. Yet 1824/2 quarters exist, struck from a third shelved 1822 obverse, and PCGS prints a mintage of 24,000 — which, with the 1825/4/2's 144,000, sums exactly to the real 1825 delivery of 168,000. A figure was created for a year with no delivery and printed in the column reserved for the record; who first printed it is unidentified. This reference shows a blank instead. Browning's own rarity note is the one worth having, because it is observational: "Date scarce when worn by circulation, but very rare if sharp." PCGS estimates 400 survivors; record $141,000, MS64, May 2015.

1824/2 · Capped Bust, large size Quarter

1824/2Photography pending

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RECORDED DELIVERY

The Mint recorded what the Chief Coiner DELIVERED in a calendar year, not what it struck bearing a date. Where the registry combines years, the split is a reconstruction and the class says so.

DATED ATTRIBUTION

—

What the trade assigns to coins bearing this date. A modern allocation by an outside authority, not a federal record.

ESTIMATED SURVIVORS

400

An estimate of how many still exist in any grade, not a count of coins anyone has seen. Every issue in this series carries one, which is not true of any other series here.

DIE MARRIAGES

How many obverse/reverse die pairings are catalogued for this issue. A marriage is a distinct pair of hand-cut dies, which is what makes these coins collectable by variety rather than by date alone.

Specifications

SpecificationValue

DENOMINATIONQuarter

DESIGNERRobert Scot (Draped Bust obverse, Small Eagle and Heraldic Eagle reverses) · John Reich (Capped Bust)

COMPOSITION89.24% silver, 10.76% copper — 92 13/16 grains of pure silver in 104 grains of standard silver

WEIGHT6.74 g

SILVER CONTENT0.19336 ozt

DIAMETERNot fixed by statute — which is the point of 1831. The Act of April 2, 1792 specifies weight and fineness and says nothing about diameter, so when the Mint reduced the quarter's diameter and thickened the planchet in 1831 it needed no legislation, passed none, and left no document explaining the decision.

EDGEReeded

MINTPhiladelphia only — the branch mints opened in 1838 and the first branch-mint quarter is the 1840-O

MINT MARKNone. No early quarter carries a mint mark.

DIE MARRIAGES1 (B-1)

The primary record

Every document behind the figures above. Where OunceDesk holds a copy, the row opens it.

Report for calendar 1824, with the Comptroller's settlement
Held in the Archive · behind recorded delivery

PCGS CoinFacts — Draped Bust and Capped Bust quarter categories and ~30 major-variety pages
External authority — not held by OunceDesk · behind dated attribution

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