1918/7-S Standing Liberty Quarter. FS-101. MS-62 (NGC). An impressive survivor of this variety with delicate gold and powder blue toning over brilliant surfaces. The fields exhibit a beautiful satiny quality courtesy of masterful die refinishing, with polish lines visible under a glass. Exceptional eye appeal and quality at this grade level. <p>The 1918/7-S was created when Mint personnel reworked a leftover 1917-dated quarter die for use the following year. This was done in the Philadelphia Mint, where all dies were prepared at that time, but after the addition of an S mintmark the die was shipped west to the San Francisco facility. Once on the West Coast this overdate die struck an unknown, although presumably small number of the 11,072,000 quarters attributed to the San Francisco Mint in 1918. Although the overdate feature is quite bold and easily discerned with the naked eye, it escaped the attention of numismatists until 1937, by which time the vast majority of examples produced had long since entered circulation. Scarce even in worn condition, the 1918/7-S is very rare in Mint State with very few coins having escaped commercial use.
