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


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Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: QUARTER DOLLARS - WASHINGTON
Item Description: 25C 1776-1976 S SILVER
Grade: PCGS MS 67
Owner: coinsbygary
 
Winning Set: Gary's 20th Century Type Set
Date Added: 6/21/2009
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

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 reverse 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-67, 1976-S Bicentennial Quarter has uniform luster and a strong strike. With 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.

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