My Barber Quarter: dipped?

dan1ecu

Would you please give me your opinion of this Barber Quarter (large images)? Do you think it’s been dipped? I’m thinking it might have been because of the lack of toning after all of these years. Also, there appears to be some green residue on the reverse on the words “Quarter Dollar.” Please tell me that its not PVC!

1915 25C Obv
1915 25C Rev

Thanks,

Dan

wingedliberty

Difficult to tell from the scan.

Brian.

BillJones

First you need close-up pictures of the coin, not whole slab to see details PVC damage, which may not even be detectable in picture.

Second, I’d say that there is a 99% chance that this coin has been dipped, but dipping alone would not preclude it from the MS-65 grade. There is only a small chance any coin other than a Morgan dollar that has spent many years in the middle of dark treasury bag will be bright white like this. You wife’s silverware tarnishes in her silver cabinet. Coins will do the same thing unless they are protected contaminates.

As for the PVC I would be concerned about that. Someone who can note the difference needs to access the situation. It could be toning, ink or PVC. From what we have here it’s impossible to tell.

benloe

Maybe reisidue from a dip that was not properly rinsed.

boiler78

Sure looks like PVC to me. Contact NGC and see what they are willing to do about the problem. I think you'll find them very helpfull. Good luck.

Dog97

To me it looks like PVC that was not properly removed by using acetone, the Barber was simply dunked in the dip which failed to remove all the PVC and it has now come back on the fresh clean surface with a vengence.

dan1ecu

I’ll go ahead and contact NGC. I’m not a member of their collectors club, nor do I know of any authorized dealers nearby. Maybe they’ll let me send it directly to them without going through a dealer? Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?

I do appreciate your comments. Maybe it can be fixed before any permanent damage results. I sure hate when this happens...

Dan

Dave99B

Looks dipped to me. AVOID!

sinin1

Its NGC's problem, send it for grade review when its beauty turned ugliness bugs you enough.

stujoe

I don't know if this will help you with recognizing PVC but here is a little something I put on my website a while back when I received my first coin with active PVC on it.

PVC Example Posting

My example has the crreping crud in a bad way so it was pretty easy to get a decent photo.