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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7883005, member: 112&quot;]I agree with the rest of your comments, but not this one. To me it does look like wear. But I do agree that one would have to see it in hand to confirm that.</p><p><br /></p><p>C-B-D - there are and always have been many who consider Washington quarters one of if not the hardest type there is to grade. I think there&#039;s two reasons for that primarily. One would be because there just aren&#039;t enough fine details in the design, and when you couple that with the difficulty that some have telling weak strike apart from wear - you have reason two.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the basic clues or tips if you want to call them that to distinguish unc from circ are, as Jason said, pretty much the same as they are with all coins. Breaks in the luster, color differences (wear is always a shade or two darker), and surface texture will allow one to tell unc from circ. So that much at least is as I said - basic. But distinguishing/judging MS number differences, and circ grades too, that&#039;s where things become more difficult because of the nature of the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, you can count contact marks, hairlines, light scratches and the like easily enough, but judging quality of strike and quality of luster, both of which play a large part in judging eye appeal on a design like that - let&#039;s just say it sure doesn&#039;t help much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some do not agree and consider grading Washington quarters a breeze, but you can&#039;t count me among them, nor can you count many others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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