The U.S. Mint also produced a series of bicentennial quarters to commemorate the event — and many of those now command great sums of money as the country approaches its 250th birthday.
The Mint produced the bicentennial coins between 1975 and 1976 as a special edition.
1919-S Full Head Standing Liberty Quarter While 1,836,000 quarters were produced in San Francisco in 1919, the date on many of these has worn off.
They were notable for being the first U.S. quarters in more than 50 years to feature a special reverse design.
The most valuable of those coins — a 1976-S Bicentennial Silver Quarter that came in with a very high grade — sold for $19,200 at auction
But that’s not the only bicentennial quarter that fetches a big price. Plenty of others have as well.
Most of these coins were “clad,” meaning they were made of multiple metals such as nickel, copper and zinc that are layered together like a sandwich,