- Category: Standing Liberty Quarters (1916-1930)
- Mint: San Francisco
- Mintage: 5,522,000
- Obverse Designer: Hermon A. MacNeil
- Reverse Designer: Hermon A. MacNeil
- Composition: Silver
- Fineness: 0.9
- Weight: 6.25g
- ASW: 0.1808oz
- Melt Value: $4.83 (5/2/2024)
- Diameter: 24.3mm
- Edge: Reeded
- Of the six date/type/mint combinations for 1917 quarter dollars, this is far and away the most scarce across all grades. Despite having a mintage nearly three times that of the 1917-S Type 1 quarter, this later version was not saved by the general public, so Mint State survivors are fairly elusive. Being quite poorly struck as a rule, the 1917-S Type 2 quarter is rarely found with Full Head details. Cline placed the population of FH coins at just 3% of the total surviving. Circulated examples are scarce in any grade, as they typically lost their dates to wear within 10-15 years of issue. Not being a one-year-only issue, they became indistinguishable from other S-Mint quarters formerly bearing dates of 1918-24.