The Monster Toned Coin Game Thread

Great looking quarter, 4.8

 

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Well it's scoring higher than I anticipated. That really helps my hopes of it getting into a ★ holder with hopefully a 67 or higher grade. When I first came across it in a dealers case, the color grabbed my attention. My first thought was a SMS issue, but the texture of the luster just didn't say SMS. The confirming details were the die crack on back extending from the eagle's wing and the die crack at the bottom of Washington's neck.

 

This might be a dumb question, but how do you get that big star to appear in your text?

And I would grade that coin MS67* all day long!

 

Absolutely would get a minimum 67* from me. I think it is kind of close to 68, so I would give it the unusual +* grade. Clad quarters generally look duller than Silver ones, so this is quite a quarter!

 

It’s struck from “tired” dies, even a pretty big die crack on the reverse at 1 o’clock. Regardless of that die tiredness, the coin is in superb condition. I would also be in the MS67★ group.

It is a very attractive coin!

 

Just for comparative purposes, I had this Washington quarter posted on the US coin forum a month ago, after I bought it. I love blue/purple toning. This one graded as an NGC MS 66, with no star. Yours is nicer, in my opinion.

 

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I don't know how others do it, but just copying it from someone else tends to work.

MS 67★ -->star copied from another post

 

Looks like I'm on the low end (along with mainebill); it is a nice coin and there have been some solid scores given!

I think it has a chance of a star at NGC, but quarters don't seem to be that easy to get stars on either. Morgans and proof coins (for cameo) are common but most others are not.

 

You realize that I am taking pointers, every time you post a well done photo.
I do miss my fourth light.

 

Not a dumb question. I'm on a Mac and I have the keyboard character viewer in my menu bar. I can go into it and select show emoji and symbols then navigate to stars and bullets. I then copy it and paste it into my post or me Excel spread sheet. It's in unicode so HTML can display it correctly.

 

Thanks you all for your comments. I'm not a big quarter guy. But everything I see about this quarter just screams 67+/68 to me. But I just can't imagine that I bought a nice looking toned MS-67+/68 Washington Quarter for $5.00. But who knows, things like that happen to others, why not me.

 

Here is a proof that I shot from the center NW of the cameras center focus. I like it as a 4.4.

 

@jtlee321 please share your score for my (eventual) summary update

I like the 1965 quarter slightly more than this 1970-S (which I also do like)
....my score is 3.6

 

I think I would call my '65 Washington a 4.7

The 1970-S above, I would call a 4.2

 

Id give the 70-s a 3.2

 

On the 70-S I'm at 2.9.

 

The ‘70s is a 4.0. I like toned proof coins, especially cellophane proofs.

 

I'm at 3.5 on the Proof Washington. The rainbow color is limited to the rims and the orange color is pretty common, still the overall appeal is strong.

 

3.6 on the quarter

 

I’m sitting at a 3 on the 70-S. It’s toned but it’s really not wow kinda toned. Not saying it’s not a great piece, just not a take a pause to take in the colors kinda piece.