there's something you might be interested in what do you got take a look at this
of a very old coin this is one of the coolest coins united states ever made
for lack of a better term the us booby coin the booby cart
i came into the pawn shop today to try to sell uh one of my grandfather's old coins he just passed
away and i mean i don't know that much about it but i believe it's worth some money that is
really really cool teddy roosevelt's wanted us to have pretty coins everyone else in the world had
beautiful coins why couldn't we it was during the art nouveau movement which was our nouveau
it's just french for the new art a lot of people were upset about the design they went from like
flowing everything to like terrible looking like chain mail best on lady liberty there
you know i'm i'm not really into fashion but i'm telling you it just didn't match
the standing liberty quarter was released in 1916 but when the american public saw this coin and
realized that there was an exposed breast on it it really upset a lot of people one of the great
things about this coin right here is it's toned a little bit okay silver oxidizes a little bit
which isn't a bad thing on a coin i personally like it on a lot of coins because when you have
a really shiny silvery coin you can't see the details so when it tones you can okay if you're
a coin collector it's one of those things you probably want right okay so i'm assuming you
want to sell it yeah okay how much do you want for it it's got to be worth 500 bucks um yeah actually
to be perfectly honest with you i'm assuming this coin's worth anywhere between 12 and 1700 bucks oh
oh wow okay okay um i have a friend who works for one of these coin grading companies okay he will
tell me what the grade will be okay if you can hang out a little bit i'll go grab them we can
figure out the exact grade do you have a little time to hang out i actually don't i have a final
i'll tell you what your best case scenario would be 1200 bucks your worst
case scenario would be 800 bucks i'll give you a thousand bucks
okay it's a fair offer
well i do have to get out of here and that's double what i was looking for so okay we have a
deal all right man i'll meet you right over there i'm gonna take this with me i don't know what's
dealing all right i'm pretty excited that i'm gonna get more from my coin than what i initially
thought it was valued at that's gonna pay for a lot for my school and it's gonna go a long ways
it's just in such beautiful shape the thing that immediately jumps out at me is how fantastic the
surfaces are there's nowhere and there are almost no marks on it the luster is good
it's a fantastic coin the coin was a 1917 quarter struck at the philadelphia mint it
was of the first type before there was a design change that covered up the breast of lady liberty
the coin shows lady liberty stepping through a gateway holding a shield signifying war and also
an olive branch signifying peace the gateway she steps through has been thought to signify the
united states stepping into its international role as peacekeeper just prior to world war one why
was it changed there was certainly was a public outcry to some degree because here you have a bare
breasted woman on a coin that was intended for general circulation but what's strange about this
is it's recorded nowhere why it was changed midway through 1917 they modified certain aspects of the
design it actually required an act of congress to make this change in the design because i mean
a coin design is offered to congress and they say yes or no right right i mean it's it's very
serious stuff and that did happen however congress did not allow the offers to be changed with the
with the the breast there was nothing in the legislation talking about that it was
talking about changing the position of the eagle on the reverse and the stars
very simple stuff so it's it's kind of an illegal coin one same not this one this is pre-change but
the whole idea is it's a coin that congress never really authorized in its final form i'd take it
even more now yeah because that was the legal coin all at once after that early layla that's right
this is the legal coin lady liberty on this particular coin caused uh a lot of problems there
were people who objected to her being partially nude after all children would be handling these
coins and then there was also the gossip about who the model was that it may have been a a broadway
actress named mcdowell but quite honestly nobody knows even from arm's length it's an easy ms65
which is as you know in the very high end of the range it needs to be evaluated by at the grading
service by three different people at least my thinking is that it's probably mint state 66
and with the full head designation so and those growing for right around
1500 bucks right now sixteen hundred dollars oh cool i think this one's this one is awesome
good i paid a thousand bucks for it that's a quick 500. all right when i bought this
coin i was a little afraid that i might have overpaid for it but it turns out i did okay