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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 6783857, member: 101855&quot;]These pictures of an 1825 quarter eagle, a tough coin, are accurate in their own way. Neither tells the whole store about the coin. The quarter eagles from this era were in low relief and many of them had semi P-L surfaces. Therefore every mark shows. </p><p><br /></p><p>Taken &quot;straight on.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1271906[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The shots taken at an angle. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1271908[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>NGC graded this coin MS-61, which I think is a fair grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Beware of coins like this graded MS-61 or 62 which have pictures that show no marks. The trick is over expose the photo which &quot;burns out&quot; out the surface marks which are actually there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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