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25 Cents '1827 Quarter Dollar' Pattern
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Engraver(s) | William Kneass |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTY 1827 |
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| Mintage | 1827 - Copper; - 1827 - Silver-plated copper - |
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The 1827 quarter is one of the more politically tangled issues in early American numismatics. No quarters were struck for circulation that year — the Mint had a substantial backlog of 1825-dated dies and simply used them to exhaust existing planchet stock. The 1827-dated pieces exist almost entirely as restrikes, produced decades later at the Philadelphia Mint for collectors, a practice the Mint conducted openly (and controversially) through much of the nineteenth century.
Judd-48 restrikes are known in multiple compositions precisely because they were made to order. The copper and silver-plated copper examples confirm these were collector artifacts from the start, never intended as monetary instruments.