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<p>[QUOTE="NSP, post: 3192398, member: 74849"]You can find plenty of examples of grading services not wanting to be too liberal with throwing around “details” designations, but sometimes you come across straight graded coins that really cause you to wonder what the graders were thinking. </p><p><br /></p><p>Behold the MS61 1822 25/50 quarter (B-2, R5): <a href="https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/627278/1822-Capped-Bust-Quarter-2550C-PCGS-MS-61" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/627278/1822-Capped-Bust-Quarter-2550C-PCGS-MS-61" rel="nofollow">Link</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s the Stacks listing for the coin from a few years ago: <a href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/1-1QKYL" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/1-1QKYL" rel="nofollow">Link</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The 1822 25/50 quarter is one of the more interesting varieties from the 1820s (for all denominations), and it is the second rarest of three die marriages for 1822, so this variety is understandably quite popular. Evidently the engraver thought he was producing a half dollar die, and then corrected his mistake by punching in 25 over the 50, creating a naked-eye variety. This particular coin is one of the highest graded specimens of this variety, which makes this quite a coin. However, I was certainly disappointed to see it was straight graded, since it has a large nick in the left obverse field and scratches below the scroll on the reverse. I guess it got the “rare coin pass?”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NSP, post: 3192398, member: 74849"]You can find plenty of examples of grading services not wanting to be too liberal with throwing around “details” designations, but sometimes you come across straight graded coins that really cause you to wonder what the graders were thinking. Behold the MS61 1822 25/50 quarter (B-2, R5): [URL='https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/627278/1822-Capped-Bust-Quarter-2550C-PCGS-MS-61']Link[/URL] Here’s the Stacks listing for the coin from a few years ago: [URL='https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/1-1QKYL']Link[/URL] The 1822 25/50 quarter is one of the more interesting varieties from the 1820s (for all denominations), and it is the second rarest of three die marriages for 1822, so this variety is understandably quite popular. Evidently the engraver thought he was producing a half dollar die, and then corrected his mistake by punching in 25 over the 50, creating a naked-eye variety. This particular coin is one of the highest graded specimens of this variety, which makes this quite a coin. However, I was certainly disappointed to see it was straight graded, since it has a large nick in the left obverse field and scratches below the scroll on the reverse. I guess it got the “rare coin pass?”[/QUOTE]
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