<strong>Obv:</strong> Standard Silver design with a right-facing bust of Liberty wearing a diadem inscribed LIBERTY and with her hair is tied in a bun at the back of her head. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is above and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST is inscribed on a scroll below. <strong>Rev:</strong> A wreath of oak and laurel leaves surrounds the denomination 25 CENTS with the inscription STANDARD SILVER above and the date 1870 below. A beautiful example with gunmetal gray toning and delicate gold and blue accents. The motifs are sharp and frosty, while the fields reveal glittering mirrors at more direct viewing angles. A natural planchet void on the obverse is well concealed within Libertys hair.</p>Authorities have differed with respect to the rarity of this type. Abe Kosoff, in the seventh edition of the Judd pattern reference, assigned a Rarity-6 rating. The editors of the most recent edition (10th) of the same reference are in substantial agreement with Kosoffs assessment and assign a Rarity-6+ rating (signifying a population of 13 to 20 survivors). On the other hand, Andrew W. Pollock in his reference <em>United States Pattern and Related Issues </em>considered this variety to be Rarity-7 (four to 12 specimens extant) and could only account for three distinctly different pieces in the auction sales he examined, together with a fourth impounded in the J.C. Mitchelson Collection at the Connecticut State Library. Regardless of which estimate is more accurate, there is no denying the elusive nature of Judd-912, especially when offered with the solid technical quality and strong eye appeal embodied in the present specimen.</p>,PCGS# 61156. NGC ID: 29XK.,PCGS Population: 1; 0 finer in this category.,
