Guess the grade of this Washington Quarter and please vote in the attached poll. As always, comments welcome!
I like it! :thumb: Taking a WAG and voting MS65, but the fact that you included AU58 as an option in this poll and not your other thread makes me wonder.........................
I have an almost complete set of washies, 90% in ms66, this one looks as good or better so I'm at 66.
I voted MS66. These 1950-1952 S-Mint issues have fantastic luster so I am assuming that the coin is just rolling with luster.
While I understand that you might not like toning, the TPG's don't penalize the grade for such minimal peripheral toning.
It took me a long time to appreciate/understand it myself but nowadays I'm always looking at coins with a little hue along their rim. It usually suggests the coin is "un-treated," has original surfaces, and/or from a former collector's album. With that said, I still don't pay premiums for 1957 toned quarters...yet.
The obverse looks clean (MS66+) but all of the marks on the eagle on the reverse...if that's a MS66 I have MS69's in my collection. Since I image a lot of coins I am pretty good at not micro grading from large images and I don't have anything above a 64 maybe a 65 with that many bag marks to the eagles wings, breast and legs.
Better late than never! The original grade (PCI MS67) and new grade (NGC MS67) are the same: Nobody guessed MS67, oh my!