GTG 1996 P Washington Quarter REVEALED
Coinscratch
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It's your first day on the job as an official Coin Grader and this comes across your desk!
All I can say is Good Luck! 
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Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Gee whiz, I was all over the place, from AU58, to MS65 to Questionable Color, UNC details. Will settle on AU58, because it looks like it has a lot of circulation marks, even though they are evenly distributed and the coin is attractive.
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Tommy
65
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
65+, maybe 66.
AU-55
I just think there are too many marks. Still a very pretty coin.
Young Numismatist
I like it at 65, but that’s a coin you want to see in hand when grading it.
Coin Photographer.
MS somewhere.... I like the toning that's for sure!
Solid strike, MS66
66+ maybe even 67. Looks really nice
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I'd grade it only 66 or 66+ but PCGS likely went 67.
Are you implying that you are tighter than PCGS - Enlarge the Picture.
This one comes nice and well struck. Im going to guess MS66, but I will question the color and say AT.
No. I'm tougher on this type of coin and I'm tougher on toning and the '96-D than PCGS. I'm tougher on worn dies and incomplete strikes. I'm otherwise fairly close to them but I do grade just a little easier.
As Erwindoc said this date comes very nice. The average grade in the mint set is higher AND the best examples are nicer. As such I hold it to a little higher standard.
The enlarged picture does show more problems. It's a hard one to guess. They often ignore planchet defects/ chicken scratching.
I would say MS65... Sure do not like purple tarnish.... Cheers, RickO
@Coinscratch So what does it grade?
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So, you gotta love TV's when it comes to colorful tarnish'o courtesy of and coined by @ricko...
It just hit me, you grew up on B/W televisions
The TrueView hides what the loupe could not. I sent this one in based on toning cause I liked it.
Pictured next is it's brother graded slightly higher and even darker. Can't remember if this one went in before PL desgs.
Will have to check. The main subject is hard to photo and capture the tarnish'o with a cell so it is pictured with two other typical Kennedy colors.
Then following are angles with a Macro to see the true surface.
Definitely would have guessed a lot lower if those new photos were posted. Looks much better in TruView.
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TruViews are definitely 'beauty' shots.... Worthy of a Hollywood queen..... Cheers, RickO
Wow, all the hits in the field are well hidden including some others. Im surprised by the grade!
That tarnish like on the '79-D half can hide some sins as well.
Respectfully, why would someone have a 1996P quarter graded?
Respectfully, to complete a set
Thank you, appreciate the reply.
I see a future for that coin in a "cheap slabs" box.
Around the 1996 time-frame the Mint was strike a lot of Mint State coins with PL surfaces. It isn't uncommon to find them and that's probably the case with this coin. Just like DMPL Morgans, they can be difficult to image and the tiny ticks are accentuated by the mirror-like appearance. Based on the TrueView I had wrongly assumed MS66.
Based on the guesses I see a .99 cent auction getting out of hand.