Snow on the ground.. 2017 year end Silver... Personal best for me.

[xr7ator]

Awesome pile of TREASURE, Basssmann.
Grats of the write up and good luck with the CTX.

 

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[Ken C]

Congrats on your amazing year. Those walking liberties are beautiful!

 

[washingtonian]

Holy smokes, you had a killer year. That's an unbelievable silver haul. Congrats!

 

[Ogre1190]

Whoaaaaa, Nellie! Amazing year, Sir. 🙌

 

[against the wind]

I'm happy for you. I know that NY State gave me a lot of silver over the years. But you had to work for it.
Congratulations on an outstanding year.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on having a stellar year.

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's a crazy, crazy big pile of silver you got there! What a drool worthy total for the year. Congrats Ray!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Wow that's a metric ton of silver!

 

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[CoinNerd86]

Sorry to bump this older thread but I saw your Standing Liberty quarters and felt I had to tell you this:

I don't want to get your hopes up, but that dateless Standing Liberty quarter (bottom-leftmost coin in the triangle of quarters in your picture) looks like a 1916 to me. Even in that condition, it could be a $1000+ coin.

As you may already know, the Standing Liberty design was beautiful but much maligned by Mint officials because it (like the Buffalo nickel) didn't strike well and the dates wore off of them far too quickly. Only about 52,000 1916 Standing Liberty quarters were minted and many of those were no doubt melted over the years as "unidentifiable." You may have found one of the survivors and rescued it from a sad fate.

I'm sure you're wondering how it's possible to identify as the date has been obliterated. Well, those Mint officials I mentioned earlier were literally tweaking the design of the Standing Liberty quarter from day one, trying to get it to strike better. Fortunately for coin collectors, the 1916 die has several unique identifiers that were changed in 1917. Therefore, even without the date a 1916 can be positively identified. Go ahead and Google "identifying a dateless 1916 Standing Liberty" or something similar and you should be able to find some helpful information. I see that you have a 1917 as well. Compare the reverses (backs) of your dateless and your '17. Both should have no stars beneath the eagle - this is a design found only on 1916s and 1917s, so if it matches, you're halfway there. Then take a look at the drape on Liberty. To me, Liberty's drape on your dateless quarter has an unmistakable "lazy parenthesis" shape that's only found on '16s. It's flatter than the 1917 "half-circle" drape. The difference is subtle but one of the sure earmarks of a '16. (They kept tweaking this drape well into the '20s. Take a look at some of your other SLQ's and you'll see it became much shorter in later years.)

I'm very excited for you and your potential gold mine. If all else fails, any coin dealer worth his or her salt should be able to tell you what you have. And if you DO have a '16, I strongly encourage you to send it in to PCGS or NGC to get it authenticated and slabbed - it's a $1000 coin even in Poor-1, dateless condition. (Yours actually looks like a Fair-2 or AG-3, which means more $$$)

Best of luck and good wishes!