Gary's 20th Century Type Set
25c BICENTENNIAL SILVER 1976

Owner Comments:

In October of 1973, The Treasury Department announced a contest whereby contestants would submit their designs for commemorative reverses on the quarter-dollar, half-dollar, and dollar coins to celebrate the Bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The winning design for the Washington Quarter, offered by Jack L. Ahr, features a colonial drummer and victory torch encircled by 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies. The date on the obverse of the coin minted in 1975 and 1976 is the 200-year dual date 1776-1976. This 40% silver clad MS-68, 1976-S Bicentennial Quarter has uniform luster and a strong strike. When most of our nation’s circulating coin production moved to Philadelphia and Denver in 1975, the primary focus of the San Francisco Mint became the manufacture of proof and collector issue coins. Included with those coins minted in San Francisco are the uncirculated silver clad bicentennial collector coins.