Video of 25X toy microscope & (Bicentennial 1976 D / DDO Type 1 obv $1/4) found in roll of $1/4's:

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Could you please put up pictures of the coin?

 

The scan is a 600 dpi scan, obverse only.

1976 D Type 1 DDO, MS-64 by ACoinJob posted Oct 27, 2016 at 3:09 PM

 

Good scan, but I can't really see the mint luster that way... do you have a cellphone photo or something else which can show the reflective pattern? Looks like a really nice coin based on the scan.

 

No cell phones, but trying to upload some 25X microscope photos for you instead. Large numbers shows what's going on. I didn't get the double ear in the microscope photos, but it's really there.

 

I'm not really looking for high-res pictures of the coin... just pictures where you can actually see the mint luster. I can't reasonably assign a grade without that.

 

I originally phased out the spot on the obverse next to the last digit 6 with the grayscale tools. As much as I hate to say it. But was you looking for color photos, explain luster please:

 

Luster is the shiny spots you can get when you polish the coin. A soft cloth will do the trick.

Did you "phase out" the spot to hide it in your image? Why didn't you just use an eraser?

Chris

 

Luster is the shiny surface which reflects light in a circular (cartwheel) pattern which all Uncirculated coins possess... for example, this 1982-P Jefferson Nickel which I recently cherried out of a bank roll. You can't see this on scans.

 

You can see its luster & the grain of the metal just like the MS-64 graded 1990 P quarters I had appraised at PCGS. Thanks for hte info. The back has a high polish mirror like surface, the front gray lines in his hair is the luster, but some white looking scratches are the actual PCGS coin-flip it's in. It's mirror like surface and metal grain and obscurity NO NEED for abrasive polishing cloths. They would ruin it.

 

Any abrasive contact with the original surface would destroy the actual strike. The spot is still on it, the luster is the gray lines in his hair, and around his face & date, and grain of the metal itself. It's still there, just darker than normal. My original sideways scan on facebook is much brighter, and has the luster you're speaking about. It was steam cleaned to get the crud & boogers and dna(fingerprints) off it from being in a roll of circulated Bicentennials though. I had it but lost it when I was 9 years old. It resurfaced this year from the bank in a roll. (38) years ago, I and my brother had the same quarter. I marked the inside of the edge back then with another Bicentennial quarter. It was originally ours, and my family's quarter. My mom got it from a rare coin dealer, but I lost it.

 

I will attempt to get a better lusterous scan of it some time soon. Give me a week to go get it back, and rescan it.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/search/2557140/ The mint luster you can see in the 25X microscope pics I snapped of the video. How's that for you?

 

Wait a minute. You found this in a roll you got at the bank? And how do you know it is the quarter you had when you where 9? I'm lost here. Please explain more.

 

It's the same coin I lost, my brother was showing me, and he's living proof it's the same coin we had when (38) years ago. Yes, the whole roll was all Bicentennials, and only (1) Bicentennial DDO Type 1 (near D) $1/4.