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Seated Liberty Quarter — Reduced Weight: Check the weight period

A familiar Seated Liberty design can hide a weight change. This profile uses the reduced quarter standard introduced in eighteen fifty-three. This calculator profile uses 0.17998 fine troy ounce of silver per coin. Contained metal value is separate from collector value.

37 secondsAudio: English. Captions available in four languages. Choose captions in the video player.Reference photographs, not sale inventory.1853 arrows-at-date example of the reduced-weight quarter.
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  1. A familiar Seated Liberty design can hide a weight change. This profile uses the reduced quarter standard introduced in eighteen fifty-three.
  2. This profile contains zero point one seven nine nine eight fine troy ounce of silver per coin.
  3. Five matching coins contain zero point eight nine nine nine fine troy ounces. Multiply that total by the current silver spot price.
  4. Purity is already included. The exact issue and condition still matter for collector value.
  5. Choose the exact coin at NumisTrends dot net.

Photographs resized and cropped for display; coin details are not retouched. Bobby131313 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · License.

Music: “I Found the Grade in the Lighting” by NumisTrends.

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