UNITED STATES: 25 cents, 1878-CC, PCGS graded AU53, Liberty Seated type. This is the final year of quarter dollar production at the Carson City Mint which saw an issue of just under one million pieces. The word "issue" is used tentatively, as some of these coins may have been withheld from release and destroyed to comply with the legal limit of $50 million for fractional notes and coins in circulation. Three dies each have been cataloged for obverse and reverse. Briggs' Obverse 1 was used with both his Reverses A and B, for a total of four die marriages. All feature the Large CC that dominated the 1877-CC production. The 1878-CC quarter is scarcer than the two preceding issues and a bit more elusive at the XF-AU level.
Estimate: 400-500 USD