I really can't tell from the fields in the pic. But, on the reverse, it looks like someone did pick around the letters with a needle or something.
I'm going to take a peek tomorrow under a microscope and see what i see. In hand, it doesn't appear so. The reason i ask is because this coin is blast white and doesn't look like the typical circulated washing quarter.
Mike: Then you have, basically, answered your own question. Do the colors in the pictures accurately represent the actual coin? Because, they don't look 'blast white' to me.
The color in the pic is not the actual color. The only lighting i had gives it a yellowish sort of color. The color of the coin is blast white similar to my MS-quality slabbed washington quarters. Usually with circulated silver, you get those "dark" areas of the coin in the recesses where grime has accumulated. This coin has none, but is clearly circulated. Such a shame, decent looking coin for a mintage of 1.6 million
Yeah, i agree. That's why i bought it. I didn't really pay much for it so i'm not disappointed that its cleaned. I have it in an airtite now propped up on an little stand on my office desk at work. people are attracted to it's appearance vs the old dirty silver coins i usually have there
