Here is my 1892 Barber quarter. I have always had difficulty grading the barber coins and sad to say I have not improved.I bought this coin several years ago as an xf and I couldn't convince my self that it was. Can someone, please offer an opinion and tell me what you think. Thanks for the help Sorry about the size guys Can a moderator help shrink them,Thanks
Not a very confident Barber grader myself, but I'd say a good VF. The reliefs seem quite worn and the reverse banner moto is almost worn away completely. But, a nice "Liberty" on obverse. Still an overall nice coin. Guy~
I'm not going to give an opinion. But I am going to make a suggestion. Large images tend to make coins look worse than they really are. The higher resolution picks up a lot of details that are unseen by the eye and even low (3x) magnification. IMO a coin's image should show both sides side-by-side and be fitted to the screen. I find 300 dpi works reasonably. (I scan/image at 600 dpi and reduce to 50% to 75% depending on the coin size.) Here's an example:
kanga, I scan my pix at 1200 dpi and save them in file folders of my collection. On the larger coins I haven't been able to reduce them low enough to post. Any suggestions? Thanks
I do not know what you are using, but with Microsoft, open the pic. Edit the pic, click on image, click on stretch/skew, and then enter the percent you want in both the horizontal size and vertical size. Then save or save as.
I basically do the same thing except I start at 600 dpi. IMO 1200 dpi is overkill for the reasons stated above. Also the images eat up huge amounts of disk space. Even elementary image software should include a "Resize" capability. MS Office 98 and earlier versions had MS Photo Editor which is GREAT unless you want to do some real fancy functions. Later versions of MS Office have a different image editor that does the job too. And there's a bunch of freebies online in case you don't use MS Office. Think "fit to screen".
Looks like a VF-30 to me. Not enough detail under the Liberty & Hair for XF, also the EPU on reverse is too worn for an XF. net grade VF, 'cause of the obverse hits.
I'd grade it XF 40, but like your photo of the SLQ, I'm having a bit of difficulty telling if there's any luster on the coin, so I'm a bit uncertain of the grade, and wouldn't be surprised with a grade anywhere from 30 to 45. Nice coin regardless...Mike
