1894 25c Guess the Grade..

What a gorgeous coin! I would give your coin a PR64. The reason why I didn't go higher was due to the fact that I see a lot of hairlines in the second photograph and I know how the graders are about hairlines! The coin exudes eye appeal and the toning is spectacular!

 

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The coin is a PCGS AU55. It has a real nice look and I bought it because I just wanted a barber. The coin does show some nice mirrors. There reason for the multiple images was to show the mirrors. The coin has a couple different looks, with mirrors and without. In the staright on image you can see some hairline like marks that bring it to the 55. I would buy 55's like this all day long.

I know this was a tough one to guess, I only wanted to share hoping some learn in the process. Hopefully people can look at the images again and see the reasons for the AU. I know it would take me a few tries since this is not my series.

 

Mike if it's AU , that's one nice AU coin '
Rusty

 

au55

 

Glen sure sells some nice coins , bought my Barber half from him .
rzage

 

I suppose I'll have to add prooflike barber coinage (along with Woodies) to the list of coins I am incapable of even estimating grades for from photographs.

 

Grade makes sense. It is quite scratched, especially showing from the lower picture.

If you looked primarily at the top pic, your grade is likely MS62-64, that's what I would've said, if there was no bottom pic.
But, if you looked primarily at the bottom pic, the grade would be AU53-MS60, maybe 61.

Wide margin of grades, just because of the light. My guess would've been AU55 or 58