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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 25409090, member: 104064&quot;]It looked like a proof to me too at first. It will take a specialist to say for sure. I know almost nothing about these but poking around Heritage last night it appears that all of the circulation coins are Briggs 1-A, and all of the proofs are Briggs 2-B. One listing says only one die pair was used for circulation strikes. Based on the date position the OP coin is definitely 1-A, so that would make it a circulation strike. NGC says when comparing with proofs, &quot;This is in contrast to the currency strikes, the obverse die of which was over polished, as these have weak tops to 88 and the adjacent base of Liberty.&quot; This is seen on a lot of the Heritage examples, but not all, and the OP coin appears well struck in those places. So that tidbit confuses me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Adding to the confusion, PCGS has graded several coins as MS that have the proof date position (2-B, below). So I don&#039;t know if there was really only one die pair used for MS coins, or if PCGS has screwed up a few. You need an expert! If your details coin is the circulation strike it will easily sell for more than a straight-graded proof. </p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-vf30-pcgs-pcgs-population-2-79-ngc-census-0-37-mintage-5-000-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-free-ngc-pcgs-coin-in-vf30-/a/1192-7720.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-vf30-pcgs-pcgs-population-2-79-ngc-census-0-37-mintage-5-000-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-free-ngc-pcgs-coin-in-vf30-/a/1192-7720.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515#" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-vf30-pcgs-pcgs-population-2-79-ngc-census-0-37-mintage-5-000-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-free-ngc-pcgs-coin-in-vf30-/a/1192-7720.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515#</a></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms65-pcgs-pcgs-5518-/a/1202-3611.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms65-pcgs-pcgs-5518-/a/1202-3611.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms65-pcgs-pcgs-5518-/a/1202-3611.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515</a></p><p>This one even specifically says it&#039;s Briggs 1-A, when clearly it isn&#039;t.</p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms66-pcgs-briggs-1-a-pcgs-5518-/a/1233-4842.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms66-pcgs-briggs-1-a-pcgs-5518-/a/1233-4842.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/seated-quarters/1886-25c-ms66-pcgs-briggs-1-a-pcgs-5518-/a/1233-4842.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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