GTG: 1917-D Standing Liberty Quarter

They gave it the FH, erroneously, because the earhole is evident. I see a lot of SLQs with iffy FH designations but this is probably the most egregious I have seen. Otherwise a pretty coin.

I was going to fill the Type 2 and 3 holes in my Type Set with FHs in MS-65 but I have been completely unable to find an attractive and complete FH at any kind of a reasonable price. They are either unattractive coins or have only partial full heads or hammer at sky-high premiums.

 

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I was in between AU 58 and MS 62...ended up guessing AU 58 (but looks like I should have stuck with my first impression).

 

You were not wrong. Sometimes there is the slab grade and the right grade. Too many collectors get this idea that the slab grade is always right because the "experts" assigned it. They goof up too, sometimes in big way.

 

For better or worse, here are the two pieces in my type set.

 

Nice!

 

The '20 is outstanding. The '29 is beautiful too, but that '20 rocks it.

 

I'll have to agree with swimmer the 20 is a sweet appealing coin very clear and clean

 

You rarely see those with their dates sitting up like that unprotected that sharp, that's a real nice one.

 

Your definitely spot on John recently sent in a Hawaiian Commemative nice coin but came back MS-66 (I said what! xmas party day?) I'll not resubmit!

 

When I was in the business, dealers called those “plutonium slabs.” (Plutonium is one of the deadliest substances known to man.) You only opened them at your own (financial) risk.

When I was submitted coins for grading as a dealer, it seemed like I always got some coins graded properly, one “gift” and one unwarranted body bag. Yes, some of the coins I submitted were marginal, but a number of body bags seemed to be designed to get you to re-submit the coins and spend more money with them. I had a few coins that got body bagged the first time and graded the next.

Here is one of them. The excuse the first time was "artificial color." The next time it came back MS-64, which it should have gotten the first time.

 

MS65

 

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