Why are Standing Liberty Quarters so hard to find ???

[BARKER]

HI Folks; My curiosity question is : Why are Standing Liberty Quarters so dang hard to find in the first place ?? I have only found ONE in ELEVEN YEARS of searching and I'm out there almost daily literally. When they are placed on the Clubs Finds Table they almost always take first place in the 1900 to Present Category because we have 60 guys out there all over New England and they are almost never found or displayed and I'm in Boston to boot. What say you guys ?? PEACE:RONB

 

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[DonDigger]

Only produced from 1916 to 1930, 14 years, is the main reason in my opinion, just not that many produced and as stated above, were hung onto pretty tight. Plus people in the post war years had started saving OLD silver long before 1964 and most of those savings got melted when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market on silver.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Not many Produced, and they wore quickly, Im sure many were melted was they were culled

Same with Franklin Halves...not as many getting dug as Walkers

 

[jeff of pa]

My standing liberty Quarter Totals are very Low also.

I've found more Waking liberty Halfs

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

I found a few SLQ's but I think only one had a date, the others the date was worn off.

 

[Jeremy S]

I agree with what others have said. Silver quarters are also very easy to cherry pick with any detector. 40+ years of metal detecting, and there is a good chance at some point somebody went over the area you are hunting and plucked out the easy silver long ago.

I have only found 1 SLQ. It is well worn and dateless and was sandwiched next to a dateless buffalo nickel, and over 6" deep.

 

[Pointman]

I guess I've been lucky. In a little less than two years of steady detecting I've found 2 SLQs, but they were both undated and one Franklin half. Buffalo nickels and V nickels elude me. I dig every nickel signal and have only found two Buffalo's and one V nick.

I have only found 8 Barber coins during this time, 6 dimes and 2 quarters. I would like my numbers to be higher, and I have only found one seated dime.

 

[tanz 82]

I live 45 mins north of boston and have found 5 standing libs in two yrs . One of the libs is 1917 VG condition and I w as offered 80 dollars for it . The thing is though they ring up weird on my white's M6 they jump with every swipe from 1c-10c to 50c and has really no consistency

 

[fistfulladirt]

I've found six in four years, all dateless except for a nice 1924S.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I guess I've been lucky. In a little less than two years of steady detecting I've found 2 SLQs, but they were both undated and one Franklin half. Buffalo nickels and V nickels elude me. I dig every nickel signal and have only found two Buffalo's and one V nick.

I have only found 8 Barber coins during this time, 6 dimes and 2 quarters. I would like my numbers to be higher, and I have only found one seated dime.

whats crazy is I found 4 barber quarters before I ever found my first barber dime..and like Jeff said..I've found way more walkers then I have SlQ

 

[m bryan]

I have found Barbers and and GW's but no SLQ....

 

[Arizona Bob]

When I think about all the SLQ's that passed thru my hands I just want to cry. I was a paperboy back in the early 1960's in the Washington DC area. In order for someone to subscribe to the paper, it cost them $1.60 per month. When I went to collect the bills, I almost always got a one dollar bill (many were silver certificates) , two quarters and a dime from nearly every customer. (I know, it's weird to think how often people paid in exact change in those days.) Anyway, I received so many SLQ's as part of the bill payments that I thought they were a "normal" part of everybody's change. (And SLQ's were ~30 years old by this time.) My family was not into coin collecting, so I let them go back into circulation as a payment for various things. If I had only saved one roll of SLQ's per month!

 

[bakergeol]

HI Folks; My curiosity question is : Why are Standing Liberty Quarters so dang hard to find in the first place ?? I have only found ONE in ELEVEN YEARS of searching and I'm out there almost daily literally. When they are placed on the Clubs Finds Table they almost always take first place in the 1900 to Present Category because we have 60 guys out there all over New England and they are almost never found or displayed and I'm in Boston to boot. What say you guys ?? PEACE:RONB

Even in the "OLD" days +50 years SLQs were not that common. After a day detecting you might come back with a pocket full of silver but only one or two SLQs. As stated already there just wasn't that many made.

George

 

[NWMP]

I found my first and only SLQ last year, here in western Canada. Of course I dinged the eagle with my shovel. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or bang my head on a tree.