I've been thinking of expanding into (low end, but above junk) Standing Liberty Quarters, and I'm trying to learn how to grade them. With the bare minimum of knowledge from a book, I just purchased one. How might you grade this 1929-D? Thanks!
I'm thinking... VF30? Ish? But I don't have much experience grading these. Most of the ones I've handled are G or lower. Sometimes much lower.
Per PCGS Photograde, it falls higher than VF25 but less than VF30. So, albeit a bit unorthodox, it is around VF28. It has design element wear lending to a lesser than VF30 grade…IMO. edit to add: NumisMedia/FMV has it valued around $25.00 USD.
Your SLQ is confounding me. It has 25-30 details. However, the obverse is completely missing the dots and dashes around the inner circumference of the rim. This detail is typically visible all the way down to 8-10 condition.
Good point. The dots and dashes are not completely gone but some of it is. And, using that metric would tend to make me lower my previous assessment to maybe VF15/20. This is taking into account what is/isn’t there of the detail that remains. @dwhiz
I’d be at a lower grade on this one, like F12, 15 tops. Too much wear on Liberty. Can’t see her toes and that’s a G grade.
I looked and looked again then went to my Red Book and other guides. VG-8, that's the best I can do but it's just my opinion. I am very much in favor of being wrong! Good luck.
Well - will Gortons do? Litterally what I had for dinner. It pairs nicely with Mt Dew zero. So I still have 4 fish fillets left.
OK -- so, I feel better that I'm not the only one that's confounded by this one! Thanks (and to all the others who chipped in with thoughts on this!)
I almost always under grade these things. My grade is VF-30. There is a fair amount of wear, but still lots of detail. I know someone will call this EF, but I strongly disagree with that.
The Standing liberty quarter is truly one of the most beautiful designs in US coinage history . Great thread
It was a decent design when it looked like this. The trouble with it was there was too much crammed into a fairly small coin. The design did not hold up well in circulation. Then McNeil changed it to this, which could not be struck well on a consistent basis. The date wore off too quickly. On some pieces, the date was weak from the day it was struck. The date problem was mostly solved after 1925, but the strike problems persisted. One of our forum members gifted this silver round to me, I believe it was @Mountain Man . This is quite attractive, but the mint never made anything like this.
