Guess the grade of this clad Washington Quarter

TWQG

Been playing with the camera today.

dlimb2

Ms67

sliderider

I wanted to say 67 at first glance, but theres something happening to the far right on the obverse that doesn't look quite right. I'll say 66.

ChuckC

the stuff to the right of obv could be on plastic. couple hits above the 1... still ms67 imo

wam98

I'll say MS-67 also. Great photo's.

ms70

68

coincollector1989

MS-67

dorkkarl

ms-64

K S

oreville

Looks 67 to me as well. Nice coin!

The luster is hard to discern from the pics so the grade I assigned is conditioned on the coin have full luster.

cladking

I've seen these. They aren't too tough to find like this in the mint sets.

They look like gem strikes on a burnished planchet. Some will be dramatically Proof Like.

There are planchet scratches on this particular one and this will sometimes lower the
grade they get at the services. My guess is MS-65.

dorkkarl

the planchet flaws on the obv right side bother me. for an ultramodern coin, i would not accept such flawed surfaces at the gem grade level.

K S

ER

67. That 's my "expert" opinion.

mgoodm3

66/67.

haletj

That is a gorgeous coin! (Want to sell it ) 88-p is one of the hardest of all clad quarters. THe grading companies grade these differently from silver quarters to account for how much worse clad quarters were made. This is NOT an ultramodern (post 98) and is not a coin easy to find like that. If the photo is true it is ms67+ and worth a fortune.

ziggy29

66.

cladking

<< <i>That is a gorgeous coin! (Want to sell it ) 88-p is one of the hardest of all clad quarters. THe grading companies grade these differently from silver quarters to account for how much worse clad quarters were made. This is NOT an ultramodern (post 98) and is not a coin easy to find like that. If the photo is true it is ms67+ and worth a fortune. >>



I don't disagree. This is a very tough date to find nice and even the best usually
have more marking than this one. It's not impossible that it will bring the higher
grade. Many people find the planchet defects as distracting as marking and the
services are not as forgiving of it as they are die polish.

It could easily go 67.

Bikingnut

MS67

TWQG

PCGS graded this one 66. They've graded 23 of this date in 66 and only 3 higher so I'm not sure I would say these are commonly found this nice. I see a lot of the chicken scratching on late 80's early 90's in the same spot and wonder if its something from a working hub and not the planchet?
I took the photos with indirect sunlight and had a hard time capturing luster without sacrificing surface detail.
haletj, you know your stuff. I think this is one of the under-appreciated series right now where low pop coins can be had for a fraction of similar low pop moderns.

Thanks for playing and the for the comments on the photo. I'm finally trying to figure out how to use my Nikon Coolpix 4500.

cladking

The '88-P is one of the few rolls that I bothered to save. Not because they are nice but
because there just happened to be a few nice ones released around here. $10 was a lot
of money to "waste" on saving a roll of clad quarters that would never be rare so usually
I'd go through rolls and save only the nicest coin (2 or 3 in a good roll). Many rolls didn't
yield a single coin of any quality at all. Even those few rolls in my SDB probably don't con-
tain a single gem, though there will be a lot of MS-64's.

When I say that they aren't that tough in mint sets, I mean if you look through hundreds of
mint sets. You'd probably have to look at about 500 sets to find one of this quality without
the planchet scartches. It might not be quite this clean though. You'd also find about three
PL's in those sets and perhaps a dozen gems. There would be a couple of rotated reverse
half dollars and some incredibly PL cents. Some of the cents from the '88 sets are simply spec-
tacular.

The '69 quarters are the worst for the kind of effect seen on this coin.

BigGreek

MS-66

nwcs

I wouldn't think higher than 65