1. 1823/22 Liberty Cap Quarter: $35,000 – The most expensive quarter in a grade of Good isn’t the first quarter ever issued (from 1796) but, rather, an overdate variety from the 19th-century Liberty Cap Quarter series. Many of the early quarters are overdate varieties, as the dies were often reused from earlier years.
2. The most valuable Standing Quarters on the market, a list of the top ten final values realized for the rarest Standing Quarters. The 1927-S PCGS MS65 Full Head is the most valuable Stading Liberty Quarter.

Most Valuable Quarters List

The 50 State Quarters Coin program is considered to be the most successful coin campaign ever launched by the United States Mint. To a certain degree the coins are kind of old news at this point. However, when the state quarters were first released there was a tremendous amount of attention paid by the American public and the anticipation for the release of the next new state was unlike anything ever seen in coin collecting.

25 Most Valuable Quarters (Updated 2021) The following list details the 25 most valuable United States quarters minted from the late 1800's to the current date (Updated 2021). This list is intended to be used by coin collectors as a tool to score some great coins at antique shops and maybe even estate sales. USA Coin Book has compiled a list of the all-time, rarest and most valuable US coins ever known. We are using our database of nearly every US coin ever produced (6,000+ coins) based on year, rarity, mint mark, major varieties, errors and their associated price values to come up with a list of the top most valuable coins known. There are known valuable errors that exist for the state quarters from Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Delaware. Our guide below has pictures, history, and probably the best information you will find on the internet about all 50 state quarters.

We often get asked what state quarters are worth now that some of them are getting close to twenty years old. And the reality is that 99.9999% of state quarters are still just worth 25 cents and will likely always just be worth 25 cents. However, there are two things to look out for; those are errors and proof silver quarter. The silver quarters are still basically just worth their weight in silver. However, some of the error quarters are quite valuable. There are known valuable errors that exist for the state quarters from Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Delaware.

Our guide below has pictures, history, and probably the best information you will find on the internet about all 50 state quarters. We would be interested in buying any legitimate error quarters. However, we are not buying individual or rolls of regular strike state quarters. We hope you will find our guide useful. Thanks for checking it out.

The 50 State Quarters Program was enacted December 1, 1997 to encourage a new generation of coin collectors. It’s estimated that nearly half the US population collected the coins, making it the most successful numismatic program in history.

A Unique Design for Each State
The quarters featured the familiar profile of George Washington on its face (obverse) with a unique design for each of the 50 states on the reverse. Five designs were released each year in the order states were admitted to the Union. The program lasted until the last coin in the series, commemorating Hawaii, was released November 3, 2008.

The first coin was released on January 1, 1999 to celebrate Delaware, “The First State,” and featured Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution. 774,828,000 Delaware quarters were minted and new state coins were issued every ten weeks in the order that the states ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the Union.

Most Valuable Quarters Of 2000

Billions of Coins Minted, but not evenly
A total of 34,797,600,000 50 States Quarters were ultimately produced. The average mintage was 696 million coins per state, ranging from a high of 1,594,616,000 for Virginia to Oklahoma's 416,600,000. The wide variation was due to several factors including the number of coins needed each year for circulation and diminishing interest in the program as economic conditions worsened toward its end in 2009.

Most Valuable Quarters

State quarters were produced for circulation at the Philadelphia and Denver mints; proof coins were struck in San Francisco. Oklahoma quarters had the lowest total mintage (416.6 million in 2008) but since circulation coins were struck at two mints, the mintmark factors into scarcity too.

Most Valuable Quarters

Here are the ten rarest circulating 50 State Quarters according to a recent article in the Heritage Auctions Coin News newsletter:

Collecting 50 States Quarters
As with all coins, rarity and condition dictate prices for collectible quarters. But you don’t have to be a high-dollar collector to build an attractive collection of quarters in most mintages.

Most Valuable Quarters To Collect

Fifty States and America the Beautiful quarters are a great place to start. Mint condition samples are inexpensive and silver proof sets are available for all years, too. The Great American Colin Company® offers a wide selection of US coins, individually, in rolls and bags, and in proof and mints sets. Visit our website for details.

Most Valuable Quarters 1900s

For more information about the 200-plus year history of quarters, their rarity and values, see the PCGS Coin Facts website.