GTG - 1900 Gold Liberty Quarter Eagle

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Circulation damage still looks good MS-60

 

I know I am way out to lunch on this, but there is a shaded area around the year on the obverse and also on the bottom of the reverse. Can anyone tell me what is causing the shadows? Other than that, I think AU

 

I'm at 66; on such a small coin the surface marks are minute. Luster looks full. good strike, great color.

 

Ok folks, here is what NGC decided. MS67 (NGC Census 38/3 finer PCGS 22/1 finer) Toughcoins and Ksparrow were the closest in their assessment. It's interesting to see everyone's judgement based on a picture alone. Your thoughts?

 

Wow that's great goes to show I can be way off the grade sorry.

 

What's about me?

 

My apologies Rheingold. Credit to you as well

 

Really underestimated this one. After the reveal, I'm not too surprised. Reviewing the photos, I can clearly see the fields still hold that almost "textured" look (I bet there is a proper numismatic term for this?).

The primary reason I'd guessed so low was simply over-focusing on the minor dings/imperfections. I often find the same problem looking at my coins under magnification which is too strong -- I tend to focus on the tiny dings and overlook the overall allure of the coin.

 

ms-65 or 66 a very beautiful coin indeed!!

 

I'm woefully inexperienced in quarter eagles of this era. It is a pretty coin, I'll go ms-64. I think graders may go a bit tougher on the small coins as they didn't have the big open fields that $10's and $20's had.

 

Quarter eagles from this era are tough to grade. But the source of the photos was a hint that this wasn't a common au58 grade.