1911-D Indian Head Quarter Eagle
Key dateThe key of the series by a wide margin, and the only Denver quarter eagle before 1914. Denver struck 55,680, less than a tenth of a typical Philadelphia year, and the coins circulated.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 55,680
- Mint
- Denver (D)
- Mintage rank
- 1 of 15
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives. Gold coin was recalled in 1933 under Executive Order 6102 and the Treasury melted much of what it held, so survival across this series runs well below the figures below.
Reading the figure
It is the smallest of the 3 Denver issues in the series. Of the 759,680 struck across all mints in 1911, this issue accounts for 7%. Philadelphia struck 13 times as many that year. The 1911 split ran Philadelphia 704,000 and Denver 55,680. The series median is 492,000, so fewer than half as many of these were struck as a typical date. Series-wide output rose sharply that year: 759,680 against 492,000 in 1910. 1911 was the largest production year of the entire series. It is the first year Denver struck the design.
Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.
Scarcity tier
Key date
Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.
This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.
Recent sold prices
Last checked Sep 14, 2026 · most recent sale Sep 8, 2026What certified 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagles actually sold for on eBay in the last 90 days, grouped by grade band. Every figure below is a completed sale of a PCGS, NGC or ANACS coin in a straight grade. This is a record of what changed hands, not a price guide, an appraisal, or a prediction of what yours is worth.
About Uncirculated
AU50 to AU58$2,785
Median of 4 sales
- Lowest
- $2,680
- Highest
- $5,005
The 4 most recent sales
- $2,680NGC AU55 · Sep 8, 20261911-D Indian Gold Quarter Eagle $2.50 Weak D - Certified NGC AU55 - Key Date!
- $2,836NGC AU55 · Sep 1, 20261911-D Indian Gold Quarter Eagle $2.50 Weak D - Certified NGC AU55 - Key Date!
- $5,005PCGS AU55 · Aug 31, 20261911 D $2.50 Indian Quarter Eagle PCGS AU 55 Strong D Beautiful Color Eye Appeal
- $2,785PCGS AU55 · Jul 8, 20261911-D Indian Gold Quarter Eagle $2.50 Weak D - Certified PCGS AU55 - Key Date!
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
How to read these
- The median is the middle sale after removing outliers. The range is every sale kept, including the outliers, so you can see how wide the market actually is.
- Grade drives most of the difference. A band with three sales tells you far less than a band with thirty, and the count is shown so you can weigh it.
- Sales of coins in “Details”, “Genuine” or cleaned holders are excluded, as are proofs, replicas, lots, and mounted coins. Those sell at prices that would not describe the coin on this page.
- So is any sale priced below what this same date fetches in a lower grade, which is impossible for a real coin and is how a counterfeit in a convincing holder gives itself away.
- 1 further qualifying sale fell in a grade band with fewer than 3 sales, which is too few to report a median from, so it is not shown.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. How this data is collected.
Documented varieties
Weak D and Strong D
The D mintmark appears in noticeably different strengths, and a weakly struck D is easily confused with a coin whose mintmark has been added or tooled.
Widely recognised varieties only. The VAM reference catalogs thousands of die marriages across these series; the absence of a variety here does not mean none is documented elsewhere.
Every issue here is labelled a key date, which tells you nothing. Every issue in this series is labelled a key date, and that tells you nothing. Read the full note on the series page.
What to check before buying
Specific to the 1911-D:
- 1This is the date the series is counterfeited for, usually by adding a D to a Philadelphia coin. The incuse design makes tooling harder to spot than on a raised design, so certification by a major service is the practical baseline.
- 2Distinguish a genuinely weak D from an added one: the certification record will say which, and a photograph will usually not.
And for any certified coin
Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. Where this page shows recent sold prices, they are records of completed eBay sales, not a valuation of any particular coin. These are verification steps, not an appraisal.
Verify a certification number
Look a 1911-D certification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.
Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.
Find a 1911-D for sale
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Common questions
How many 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagles were minted?
The Denver Mint struck 55,680 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagles for circulation. That is the 1st lowest business-strike mintage of the 15 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagle a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a key date, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. The key of the series by a wide margin, and the only Denver quarter eagle before 1914. Denver struck 55,680, less than a tenth of a typical Philadelphia year, and the coins circulated.
What varieties exist for the 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagle?
Widely recognised varieties for this issue include Weak D and Strong D. The D mintmark appears in noticeably different strengths, and a weakly struck D is easily confused with a coin whose mintmark has been added or tooled. Variety attributions should appear on the certification label rather than only in a seller's description.
What should I check before buying a 1911-D Indian Head quarter eagle?
Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue. This is the date the series is counterfeited for, usually by adding a D to a Philadelphia coin. The incuse design makes tooling harder to spot than on a raised design, so certification by a major service is the practical baseline.
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1 min readMintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-08-02. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- CoinMintages.com, Indian Head quarter eagle mintages — Business strikes and proofs listed separately. Used as the business-strike figures here.
- USA Coin Book, Indian Head quarter eagle — Independent table. Agrees on every Denver issue; its Philadelphia figures add that year's proofs into the total.
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