July 4th Liberty Bell Quarters Have Been Found

And they're already reselling for thousands

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By RC Staff

01 July 2026

Key Points

At least three July 4th Liberty Bell quarters have been found and sold online; two of them for $1,000+
Only 250,000 of these specially marked quarters exist among hundreds of millions minted monthly
NGC is offering a $2,500 bounty for the first collector to submit one for grading

We told you to start checking your change last week, and the early results are in: coin collectors who found a July 4th Liberty Bell quarter are already flipping them for thousands of times the coin’s face value. The scramble intensified this week as the first verified secondary market sales landed, and a major grading company just sweetened the pot for anyone still holding out.

Why the July 4th Quarter is So Special

If you missed the news, allow us to refresh you. Last week, the Mint announced a limited release of quarters celebrating America’s semiquincentennial. These feature the Liberty Bell on the reverse, a special “July 4th” privy mark, and no mint mark.

These are limited to just 250,000 units and the Mint began rolling them out mixed in with the other circulating 2026 quarters. The goal was to get them to the public before July 4.

Liberty Bell 250th Semiquincentennial Quarter Design

For context, the Mint strikes somewhere between 400 and 500 million quarters a month. 250,000 isn’t a small number, but when mixed in with the other circulating coins, these July 4th quarters are just a fraction of the total supply.

2026 July 4th Quarters Resell

The Mint has succeeded in getting these into circulation before the 4th. Collectors and resellers immediately jumped on the opportunity and began hunting for the coins, and we’re already seeing those efforts paying off.

Three separate collectors confirmed sales on June 30 through eBay, landing at $1,000, $500, and $2,500, a wild markup for a coin that’s nominally worth just 25 cents.

250,000 isn’t a tiny mint run, but in the context of the Mint’s usual production run, it’s like a thousand needles in millions of haystacks.

While collectors hunt for the actual privy quarter, a side market has opened up around plain rolls of quarters, and it’s worth paying attention to even if you never find a hit yourself. Resellers are buying $10 rolls of 40 quarters and flipping them to speculators for $50 to $100 each.

Since the coins inside carry face value no matter what, this is close to a risk free flip: worst case, you’re holding $10 worth of quarters you can spend or deposit. The buyer is the one taking on the actual gamble, betting that one of those 40 coins is the privy mark, and given the payouts we’ve already seen, that gamble is starting to look a lot more reasonable than it did a week ago.

NGC Offers July 4th Quarter Bounty

The grading company NGC is offering a $2,500 cash bounty to the first paid collector member who submits a July 4th privy quarter for grading. This isn’t NGC buying the coin; it’s a reward just for submitting it, and the graded quarter goes right back to the sender along with the cash. Combined with what these coins are already fetching on the open market, that’s essentially a second lottery ticket stapled to the first one.

This is an incredible opportunity for resellers that many people aren’t even aware of. Whether you’re buying quarter rolls hoping to strike gold, or just flipping them to collectors and pocketing the difference, we’re seeing huge profits roll in on a daily basis.