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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25319653, member: 101855"]When I was building my Proof set collection of the pieces from 1936 to 1942, I learned that it is very hard to judge these coins from photographs. Some of them are obviously good or obviously bad, but, for most of them it's not as easy as it is with business strike and coins in the circulated grades. The coin in the OP is obviously a Proof, but I don't know if the shine around Washington's head is the Proof surface or a polished surface. That's why I posted "details" or PR-64 as the possible grades. The piece has too many hairlines to be anything above PR-64. There is also a patch of marks on the right side of the obverse under the "Y" in "LIBERTY." It has been my experience that those are contact marks that come from the Proof dime laying over the quarter when the cellophane bags are stapled together. I've see this most often on sets from 1950 to box 1955 sets.[/QUOTE]