Some modern issues brought surprisingly strong prices at Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ November 2023 auctions, showing the strength for errors and varieties, alongside the continued demand for top-graded condition rarities.

A beautiful Mint State 68+ 1966 Washington quarter dollar is the finest certified at Professional Coin Grading Service, the sole finest known of the otherwise common date, and sold for $20,400.

Beyond the near total absence of marks, the cataloger called it “an exquisite example irrespective of date,” observing, “pristine-looking surfaces are adorned in vivid multicolored peripheral toning that has a target-like distribution from the rims to the centers.”

The Coinage Act of 1965 removed silver from quarter dollars, and the copper-nickel clad 1965, 1966 and 1967 issues lacked Mint marks, to quell any collector excitement.

This same copper-nickel clad example, when offered at Heritage in May 2023, sold for $21,000.

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