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Please grade this 1892 barber quarter

PppPpp Posts: 498 ✭✭✭✭

In my travels I never come across and I don’t look for, good quality barber coins. Then I came across this 1892 Barber quarter and I really liked the way it looked however, my gut tells me it might have been polished but I took a chance and bought it. The shop said it was an ms63.

What grade would you give this coin.

Thank you in advance.

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  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Obverse fields look polished to me. UNC Details.

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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 7,909 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It appears to have UNC details, but the photos would need to be closer up to evaluate the surfaces.

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's real, I'll go 58 cleaned.

    Plus, things you don't want to see in coin pictures!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you bought it at MS-63 prices I'd return it quickly!

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Polished. Run!

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • PppPpp Posts: 498 ✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for your confirmation of my gut. Lighting wasn’t good at the shop and it’s one of those cases where I wanted it to be what it was marked. It’s when I got home and looked at it again my gut said oops.
    I am sure the shop will take it back however, it is my fault and part of me says eat it as another in the long line of learning experiences.
    🙂

  • PizzamanPizzaman Posts: 285 ✭✭✭

    It was dipped, not polished. They don't look like that that old. If we could have better light it, that would help. It looks like a piece of cardboard in these. If there's luster, it's hidden in these.

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Ppp said:
    Thank you for your confirmation of my gut. Lighting wasn’t good at the shop and it’s one of those cases where I wanted it to be what it was marked. It’s when I got home and looked at it again my gut said oops.
    I am sure the shop will take it back however, it is my fault and part of me says eat it as another in the long line of learning experiences.
    🙂

    There is no reason that you have to bite the bullet, just return the coin

  • Eldorado9Eldorado9 Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a dipped out AU coin ...from my perspective. MS-63 would be too optimistic. Can't get a fix on the luster, if there is any?

  • Eldorado9Eldorado9 Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Granted, this one is a higher grade, but even an MS-63 Barber should have nice bright luster that cartwheels around the peripheries.

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