Will PCGS bag this colorful statehood quarter?

crito

Scanner makes colors look washed out, rather vivid actually. Rose in the center, with a ring of blue and gold towards rim. The other side is BLAST WHITE... it's a Georgia BTW.

coppercoins

Probably so, environmental damage. Even if they don't, it shouldn't grade above MS63, a 50c coin in a $30 holder?

crito

PCGS only charges $10 for moderns and grade doesn't seem to matter much when determining the value of toned coins. But I'd hate to waste even $10 if PCGS is being tight-arsed lately, I'll probably send it somewhere else.

coppercoins

Revised - I forgot the lower fee for moderns....a 50c coin in a $10 holder? Still doesn't make sense. As for the coin's color, I highly doubt anything on a statehood quarter could be anything but environmental damage. It takes years for silver to tarnish under "natural" conditions, and this coin is clad, even harder to tarnish naturally. And that coin is what? three, four years old? That was probably a roll-end coin stored in something chemical - a box, near a soaked rag, near chemically unstable substances, under cigarette smoke - and changed color because of that. I would bet a dime to a donut hole that a very soft wipe with a q-tip and acetone would take the color right off that coin. If I'm wrong, so be it - but the coin is still no better than MS63 with the marks it has on it - and MS63 statehood quarters are pocket change.

crito

ROFLMAO, uh, OK coppercoins, if you say so. No need to repeat yourself. I understood you the first time.

TWQG

Those look like the colors when you bake a clad in the oven.

crito

The other side is blast white TWQG, but it is from the end of a roll. It wasn't toned when I bought it in 99. Stored in a ziplock baggie with dessicant since then. none of the other rolls in same baggie toned and other end of this same roll didn't tone either... just this one coin. Thanks for input though, about what I expected.



edited to add: and I soaked it in acetone today, with no change what-so-ever.