Just picked up this raw 1927 $2.5 gold quarter eagle. I am not very confident estimating grades on raw $2.5 & $5 gold indians, but it does seem to have decent luster in the fields which is someting I look for first. I look closely at the head dress and the indians cheek bone on the obverse and the eagles feathers on the reverse. Despite all of that, I still never feel like I know a ballpark grade for some reason. It has a few contact marks on both sides but overall the eye appeal is pleasing to me. What category do you believe it may fall in?
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I would say some were in the MS-63 to 64 category. It has a lot of very small field surface marks. That was the drawback to the incuse design. The fields were the highest part it which made them very susceptible to marks.
One of CoinTalk/XenForo's current snits is that it fails to recognize a large class of JPEGs as images. If I take a photo on my phone and upload it, it displays as an image just fine, but if I first crop or otherwise edit it, CT will only take it as an uploadable/downloadable file, even though it's still a perfectly valid JPEG. (I haven't take the time yet to examine both kinds of images in an image tool and see what's different. I'm not sure I ever will.) Long story short, it's a CT problem, not a user problem.
