I am about to send this quarter off to NGC for grading. Anyone care to "pre-guess" the grade? Poll will close in 24 hours. I will post NGC grade when it comes in. Take a look at K10 to K11 on the obverse rim.
Absolutely Beautiful, would add it to my set in a heartbeat but those alligned hairline scratches on the reverse ouch... UNC Details Cleaned... but I honestly hope I'm wrong
It looks to me to be cleaned and scratched. Very nice looking but I had to go with Details. It may get slabbed as genuine but the grading fees are too high for a Details grade. You may want to reconsider.
Thanks for the gut check. I happen to think this coin is on the bubble as far as being a details coin but I can certainly appreciate those that believe it's been cleaned. But I'm a little like Freud in this regard when he is alleged to have said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In this context, sometimes a scratch is just a scratch. Anyway, it's off to NGC with it Monday.
Remember, we can only see a photo of the coin. Where you have the real thing in hand. Best wishes for a good grade.
MS 61/62...I don't see a clear sign of cleaning-just a lot of surface marks emblematic of a low unc coin (or a slider that still ends up in an unc holder because there is enough luster)
You never know. One time a scraped spot like the one at obverse 7:30 will doom a coin (I reckon they think spot removal) and the next time they let it slide.
I voted AU-58. It’s grey areas on Ms. Liberty’s body, which could be a rub or envelope storage friction. This is the classic “cabinet friction.” The fields have lines that should be too numerous for a Mint State grade, but that hasn’t happen to some coins I’ve seen over the last five or six years. Given the way grading is going these days, it could be AU-58 or MS-62.
It looks to have somewhat glassy fields, and proofs with those tend to mark up like this. I went with it straight grades AU58. Either way, even if it details, really love it.
Poll closed as of yesterday. I am gonna say AU58 A little to dull to be MS. I hope it doesn't get detailed.
NGC sent it back MS-61 which I think is fair. We were a bit all over the map on this one but I think those responses were all justified. I will say that this coin looks much better in hand without magnification than the photos would imply. Photos seems to magnify every blemish. Then again, maybe it's just my old man eyes.
