1919-D Standing Liberty Quarter. MS-66+ FH (PCGS). Near the top of the <em>PCGS Population Report</em> for the issue, this Condition Census Gem possesses extraordinary striking detail for a 1919-D Standing Liberty quarter. Libertys head is sufficiently full, and the balance of the devices are sharply to fully defined. Intense frosty luster covers both sides and provides swirling cartwheel visual effects under a light. It is essentially brilliant, with just the lightest blushes of pale silvery tinting here and there. Virtually pristine and with exceptional eye appeal, this high quality example would make an important addition to the finest Standing Liberty quarter set.The 1919-D is one of the most challenging quarters of this design type to locate in the finer Mint State grades. The mintage is only 1,944,000 coins, and contemporary collectors seem to have preferred the identically dated San Francisco Mint quarter. When offered in todays market, this Denver Mint issue is apt to be worn to one degree or another. The Mint State survivors that do turn up seldom display Full Head definition. There is a good reason for this -- no more than 1% of the mintage is believed to have been produced with enough care to secure an FH designation from the two leading certification services. This estimate is per J.H. Cline (2007), who also opines that the 1919-D is actually rarer than the more highly publicized, key date 1916.A fairly bold reverse die crack is present from the top of the eagles left wing to the rim. This feature is as made. Ex PCGS Registry "East Coast Collector," The Finest Known Set of Standing Liberty Quarters; Heritages FUN Signature Sale of January 2000, lot 6701; our (Bowers and Merenas) sale of the James W. Lull Collection of Standing Liberty Quarters, August 2006, lot 3144; our (Bowers and Merenas) sale of the Malibu Collection of Standing Liberty Quarters, November 2010 Baltimore Auction, lot 1760.
