1919-S 25C, FH

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Key Date 1919-S Quarter, Breathtaking MS 66 Full Head Preservation

1919-S 25C MS 66 Full Head PCGS. The United States was a very confusing place in 1919. Returning from Europe on July 8, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson asked the Senate to accept the end of the Great War through ratification of the Versailles Treaty. While both Wilson and the League of Nations garnered overwhelming public support, a group of Senators led by Henry Cabot Lodge aligned themselves against the majority of the nation. Despite Wilson's crusading mission to bring the League before the American people, the treaty was defeated in two separate votes in the Senate. Wilson's inability to accept compromise doomed the League to defeat in the third and final vote before the Senate on March 19, 1920. Although implausible, the United States had won the war in 1918 but lost the peace in 1919. In domestic affairs, the nation's plight was just as haphazard. Wilson, preoccupied with the war and the struggle over the League of Nations, failed to exert his leadership on the home front. After his debilitating stroke of October 2, 1919, the president's final two years in office floundered toward their ignominious end. Without the Chief Executive's strong hand, demobilization proceeded in a happenstance manner. War contracts were cancelled so suddenly that workers and businessmen alike had to make the transition to peacetime procedures on their own. The 4,000 men who left the Armed Forces each month flooded into a constricting economy that was canceling old jobs rather than creating new ones. As the calendar turned to 1920, it seemed that Americans could not relegate the 1910s to history fast enough.
As a window into America's postwar confusion, the 1919-S Standing Liberty quarter has no equal. After all, a limited delivery of poorly produced quarters from the San Francisco Mint seemed right at home in a year that witnessed Senators whose policies bucked that of their constituency. With a bold impression that would do justice to a 1930 representative, the present specimen is a pleasant departure from the typically encountered 1919-S quarter. Liberty's head, the inner shield, rivets, gown lines, and breast feathers all display razor sharp delineation throughout. The obverse displays mottled russet-gold and lilac-gray hues that deepen somewhat about the rim. The reverse exhibits paler shades of the same colors. The surfaces are pristine and undeniably Gem quality, although, for accuracy alone, we mention a trivial abrasion across Liberty's cheek. Swirling luster serves to enhance this coin's already memorable eye appeal. Since NGC and PCGS combined report only 4 examples in MS 66 with a scant 2 finer (9/99), this specimen is clearly at the upper-end of the Condition Census for the issue.
Ex: PCGS Registry "East Coast Collector," The Finest Known Set of Standing Liberty Quarters.

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 243D, PCGS# 5733, Greysheet# 5580)

Weight: 6.25 grams

Metal: 90% Silver, 10% Copper

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