What would you grade this 1943 Washington Quarter?

Well, I hope you get a 67 but I'm not seeing it. If you look above the 3, there's a couple of very small scratches. Also, there's another small scratch on the "M" of Unum. Maybe those two details won't affect the grade idk. Lastly, the fields don't look smooth enough to me, especially between America and Dollar on the reverse. The obverse don't look right either, not smooth or sharp enough. Oh, I voted MS65. good luck!

 

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I agree with MS66 based on the GIF. I see several small hits on the obverse and something going on near the rim around 4:00.

 

Yeah, my lighting is very high contrast which in turn highlights all blemishes no matter how small. Also depending on the size of monitor you are view the images on gives an approximate magnification of 7-10X easily, and that is before enlarging them. I really appreciate all of your opinions on here. I like the fact that you don't hold anything back and that's what makes this forum invaluable. Contrast this forum to the Collectors Universe forum and it's a bright shining star. A lot of people over there are too eager to tear into something to try and make them selves look like some kind of grading expert. It's very brutal and a lot of them severely under grade just to try to look good. Over here a lot of you are spot on a lot of the times in the GTG threads. Believe me, I'd much rather have you all grade my coins then those guys.

So with that said, LOL, what would you grade these next two quarters from the same year and mint? They are both PCGS graded and come from the CoinFacts page. Both are different grades and one of them is from the same die pair as the example in the original post.

 

I don't know about those last two. Washington quarters are pretty tough for me, and I start losing perspective past MS65. But, I'll go with MS67+ for the top one and MS67 for the bottom one.

 

MS 66

 

Two skills are at play in this thread: grading coins, and evaluating high-resolution images of coins. Not everyone has both skills. High-res imagery of coins shows you things you've likely never seen in-hand on a coin, even if you've been looking at them for forty years.

 

Derp, I meant "something going on near the rim around 4:00 on the reverse."