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1/4 Dollar - Seated w/motto w/o date Arrows - Copper Pattern
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | 1863 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Judd-336 belongs to a particularly active period of pattern experimentation at the Philadelphia Mint, when wartime metal hoarding had driven virtually all silver and gold coinage from circulation. By 1863, even copper cents were being stockpiled, and the Mint's chief coiner and engraver were under pressure to find workable substitutes for silver denominations. This piece — a quarter struck in copper — was part of that broader inquiry, testing whether base-metal compositions could sustain fractional coinage through the crisis.
The "without date" feature places it among a small subset of 1863 patterns where date placement or omission was itself under evaluation.