AboutMyCoin1942-S Washington Quarter in MS60
A 1942-S Washington quarter graded MS60 is worth $26 to $96, from sales and public data. The grade below it is About Uncirculated (AU-58), and the same coin in that grade is worth less — how much less varies from date to date.
Mint State (MS-60)
$26 to $96
From sales and public data. Figure occasionally updated. Not an appraisal or declaration of worth or value.
What MS60 means
A 1942-S Washington quarter in Mint State (MS-60) has no wear at all and is graded at the bottom of mint state for everything else: the open fields of Washington’s cheek and jaw carry heavy contact marks from the mint bag, the lustre is dull or broken, and the coin has little eye appeal. Nothing about it circulated; everything about it was handled.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade MS-60. They are the same grade and the same 1942-S Washington quarter.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1942-S Washington quarter is given run from PO1 to MS70. One step up from MS60 is Mint State (MS-61). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
← About Uncirculated (AU-58)Mint State (MS-61) →
What it sold for
No certified sale of a 1942-S Washington quarter in MS60 is recorded in the sources this site reads, which is what you would expect at this price: certifying a coin costs a large share of what this one is worth, so almost all of them change hands raw and unrecorded. The range above is what the published guides say rather than what anybody paid, and it is the weakest figure on this page.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1942-S Washington quarter in MS60, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. If what you find sits outside $26 to $96, trust what you found: it is newer than this page.
The metal floor under it
$11.64
0.1808 troy oz silver × $64.38 per troy ounce
$64.38/ozt, based on spot prices at 23 September 2026 19:59 UTC
Whatever the market does, a 1942-S Washington quarter cannot be worth less than the metal in it. That figure is what the premium for MS60 is measured against, and it moves with the metal price rather than with the coin market.
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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