1887 Liberty Seated Quarter. Briggs 1-A. MS-65 (PCGS). CAC.，The surfaces of this highly lustrous Gem are brilliant apart from a few speckles of pale golden-russet iridescence around the centers. There is pronounced semi-prooflike reflectivity in the fields. The 1887 is part of a run of low mintage circulation strike quarters from the Philadelphia Mint that commenced in 1879 and continued nearly through the end of the Liberty Seated series in 1891. This was caused by release of large numbers of earlier dated quarters after silver and paper bills reached parity on April 20, 1876. Those coins had been hoarded in the East and Midwest beginning early in the Civil War, and their appearance reduced the need for new production for many years. The 1887 has a mintage of just 10,000 circulation strikes and it is one of the scarcer dates of its era due to a below average rate of survival for Mint State examples.，From the A.J. Vanderbilt Collection. Earlier from Heritages sale of the Warsaw Collection, August 2013, lot 3683; via Tom Panichella and Scott Mitchell.，
