Grade This Clad

Every now and again, I come across a modern that catches my eye. This is an example of that. This is a 1998-D Washington Quarter graded by NGC which I recently picked up.

I would like to get your opinions on the grade...as well as what you believe NGC gave it.

I took the best photos that I could, hopefully they are sufficient. The first set are the standard obverse and reverse photos followed by an off angled set to try and give an idea of the coin's surface.

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Wow, it's very 'proofy' looking for a Denver quarter. I'll go with MS66.

 

1st set of pics... 68
2nd set of pics... 67
I'll try 67 (star)... very hard to find those business strikes without contact marks all over them

 

MS66PL. Nice coin.

 

Ms67pl?

 

At least you didn't just say "BU" today. :hail:

 

I don't want to spoil it too much, but I did a little research quick on the populations at NGC. For all Washington quarters from 1932-1998 (a total of 137,358 graded coins) they have graded 194 with the PL (prooflike) designation. That's a percentage at large of 0.14% or about one in every 700 quarters graded.

Of those PL graded coins, the 1998-D is the most common (39 coins), and the 1990-P is the 2nd most common (38 coins). I don't know what was up in 1998 at Denver, but a full 33% of all 1998-D coins graded by NGC have received the PL designation!!!

Nonetheless, a very cool coin. I'm hoping this coin got a PL designation, as it's almost textbook based on your photos.

 

The sub-question was guess the grades. The barcodes said 63 and 62, so that's what I guessed.

The better question is why would someone grade two beat-up (allbeit MS) 1922 Peace dollars?? :devil:

Back to our regularly scheduled program.....

 

67 Maybe PL

 

Ms66

 

VF20

Just kidding MS66PL. Nice coin!

 

There are two things working againt this coin; the '98 comes nice and it has chicken scratches.

Normally the chicken scratches (obverse 4 O'clock) wouldn't weigh heavily against a grade but it
might for a date that comes nice.

 

Don't listen to "gramps" lololol. It is 66.

 

Talk aboat a strike!

Impressive. I'll say NGC said MS67.

 

67pl

 

MS-66PL I didn't know that the mint could produce that quality of business strike anymore.

 

Denver has always had good strikes for some of these moderns over here. Lots of prooflike Washingtons coming her in Washington.

I'll say 66. I don't think they tag these as PL yet.

 

there are a couple of qualities on this that mitigate that a bit. The PL surfaces and the great strike.