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.
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.