Proof Liberty Quarter Eagles
1904 $2 1/2 PR62 PCGS. Just 170 quarter eagle proofs were produced in 1904, a number slightly less than the usual gold proof mintages of the decade, but a truly tiny number in the context of most 20th and 21st century proof production now available to collectors. This example displays attractive medium-gold color and deeply mirrored surfaces tempered by cloudiness in the fields surrounding the central devices, the result of scattered microscopic lines and tiny marks. Still, an attractive, fully struck proof with light frost on the crisp devices. Population: 9 in 62, 47 finer (1/17).