1806 Draped Bust Quarter


1806 Draped Bust Quarter

Circulation Mintage: 206,124 For All Types
Obverse Text: 1806 | LIBERTY
Reverse Text: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | E PLURIBUS UNUM | 25 C.

Produced in limited numbers and erratically during the earliest years of U.S. Mint operations, the quarter was not a popular denomination with contemporary silver bullion depositors. Such coins were produced at the request of depositors during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and those dealing in silver bullion much preferred half dollars and silver dollars over quarters. Even so, calendar year 1806 saw the Mint deliver an unusually large number of quarters for the era — 206,124 pieces — those actually bearing the date 1806 eventually requiring 10 die marriages to produce. Browning-9 vies with B-3 as the most common variety of the issue in terms of total number of coins extant. As a date, of course, the 1806 quarter is very rare in the finest Mint State grades, as indeed is the Draped Bust type as a whole.

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The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the July 2015 Baltimore Auction, where it realized $44,062.
 

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