1822 25C PO1 认证号20374337, PCGS号5332

Bought privately, thanks Ray

While 1822 is only one of the “tougher” dates among Large Size Capped Bust 25c, it is arguably the most interesting. Five different 1822-dated obverse dies were produced, but only one was employed for striking 1822 quarters. The others were subsequently over-dated, one for use in 1823, three for 1824. Two of the unused 1824/2 obverses were then over-dated once again for 1825, and the 1823/2 obverse was over-dated once again for 1827. Furthermore, the single obverse die employed for 1822 was mated with three different reverses - the Blundered 25/50 Reverse on the shelf since 1818, the Normal Reverse used to strike most of the 1822 mintage, and then the Broken Arrowhead Reverse T in a newly discovered B.3 die pairing (2017), the reverse that was subsequently used to strike quarters of 1823, 1824, 1825 and 1828. That is quite a family tree for such a simple date.

Currently, the only known example of B.3 is the Discovery Coin, certified in 2017 as AG3 by NGC.

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Ron Guth

The 1822 Quarter has a much smaller mintage than that of the previous year, but the 1822 is not known as a particularly scarce date.  Two die varieties comprised the entire mintage of this date: one variety is the 25/50C and the other shows a normal denomination.  Based on die evidence, researcher and author Steve Tompkins concluded that the Blundered Denomination resulted from a die left over from 1818.  The Blundered Denomination appears to be two to three times as scarce as the normal reverse.

Approximately a dozen Mint State examples are known of the Normal Denomination.