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Which quarter looks the best?

Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

I'm posting images of 1/2 of a quarter's reverse. Which is the nicer coin to you?

Which quarter looks the best?

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  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sounds/ looks like a trick question, so top rules :)

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2018 4:05PM

    Same coin, besides it's impossible to make a judgement from these photos of only part of a coin

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  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Defects are the same on each -- it's a tie! Bottom pic is easier on the eyes.

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with it being the same coin. Dings by the claw and ding on top of the R in dollar seem to match.

    Interesting to see how the “A” in America appears so vastly different.

    Unless there is something “special” about the coin... spenders. If I had to pick the it would be the top because it is probably the more realistic pic of the coin.

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gosh, never seen a gold quarter before! ;)

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lighting makes all the difference.

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The bottom image is better of the same coin.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same coin but the first is pre-conserved and the second coin is post-conserved. I like the second one better.

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  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same coin, so neither one for me.

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    Same coin but the first is pre-conserved and the second coin is post-conserved. I like the second one better.

    I thought of this, as well, but my guess is that it's the lighting and the angle.

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Catbert said:
    Gosh, never seen a gold quarter before! ;)

    "They" gold plate them all the time as a novelty.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinbuf said:
    Same coin, besides it's impossible to make a judgement from these photos of only part of a coin

    Actually, get accustomed to looking out of the box. If I take an image of the front end of two different cars and ask what design you prefer, it should be easy. Just as easy to answer this poll without seeing the rest of the coin or the edge. You only have two images to compare here.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good catch, this is the same stained coin. The bottom image is the better one. It is taken with the coin in a different position to hide the stains - sort of like what can happen in an Internet auction. :)

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This happens all the time on E-Bay. Astute sellers will change the lighting on LIBERTY on pre 1916 Buffs, all of which are struck weak as designed.

    This tricks the buyer into thinking the coin is a bolder strike.

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So, is there a way to remove said stains? That would make this thread very interesting.

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know there is no straight answer to your question ever so I said #2 but I think neither :)

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same coin. I didn't look close enough before I voted. :/ I failed this test.

  • EzmoneyEzmoney Posts: 149 ✭✭✭✭

    Are you bored?

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,626 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bottom image because better photography used on same coin.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,292 ✭✭✭✭✭

    unsure of it. looks like the same coin, jmo

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I could see it was the same coin, but prefer the second picture. Cheers, RickO

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