Grade this 1892 quarter dollar

TY. Acetone is easy to find in my vanity and seems like a wonder cleaner

 

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Make sure it's pure acetone. Nail polish removed contains acetone but not something you want to use to clean coins.

 

Make sure to check the ingredients. Only use pure acetone. The kind you get in gallon sized canisters at a hardware store. Things that say acetone that may be around the house, most commonly nailpolish remover, are not pure, and have other additives in them that can harm coins.

 

Will do, TY.
I have nail polish remover AND I have pure acetone that I use on one of my projects.

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XF, harshly cleaned

 

It is really interesting to see how grades get harsher and more-critical as a grading thread goes on. It is almost a contest to see who can assign the harshest grade to the OP coin. It almost seems like any coin below perfection (or maybe a misinterpretation of the photos) warrants a coin to be considered junk. It is a bit annoying sometimes.

I see a LOT of luster, so EF is out of the question. That leaves AU/MS. I see a lot of friction, so AU. The color looks off (dipped) and the texture seems weird (cleaned?), but I have seen the same texture and color on original AU Morgan Dollars with the same lighting.

I need better pictures that show the true look of the coin in normal lighting. I will not narrow down the grade or comment further on surface originality until that happens.

 

It may just be that people tend to not chime in with another opinion if it's already been said in the thread (unless it's a GTG thread), which would create a downwards trend as people who think it's worse than a previous poster chime in.

I agree with you. Luster is present and the stars are sharp so it would be at least a 45, some clear wear points, which would cap it at 55. Then it has that intermediate unattractive wear pattern that you see with AU53s on Barber quarters. While I said AU53 before, I think it's actually between an AU50 and 53, but definitely also details.

 

Filing, as far as i can tell. No raised metal.