1796 Draped Bust Quarter. B-1. Rarity-4+. Poor/Fair Details--Holed (PCGS).

A pleasingly original example with glints of warmer olive-charcoal on deep pearl gray patina. The sharpest remaining detail is found in isolated peripheral areas, and it includes a full date that shows the "distant 6" feature, confirming the Browning-1 attribution. The PCGS qualifier concerns a ragged hole through the coin in the right obverse field, evident on the reverse below the first letter A in AMERICA. This is the scarcer of the two known die marriages of the 1796 quarter, an issue that is extremely popular as the first quarter struck in the United States Mint and the only one of the Draped Bust, Small Eagle design type.

PCGS# 5310. NGC ID: 23RA.