Rare 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter Pattern Discovered, Heading for Auction
By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, Editor An extremely rare 1916 Standing Liberty quarter pattern was recently certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) and will soon be heading to auction. The coin, graded PF61, is only the second specimen known to exist. The proof coin was formerly graded and slabbed by another third-party coin grading company as a regular 1916 Standing Liberty quarter – itself a series rare key date – but was identified by a numismatist at Heritage Auctions as something rarer still than an “ordinary” 1916 Standing quarter. The coin was subsequently submitted to NGC, where the coin was confirmed [...]