Care To Guess The Grade: 1857-O Qtr (**UPDATED**)

LeeG

Just picked this one up. Care to guess the grade and provide your thoughts if you like.

Sellers Pic


Edited to add: Coin arrived today and added my pics here This coin helps me stay at #1 in the 1857 Mint Set w/Gold Registry Set. It also keeps 100proof1957 in 2nd place.


1857 Mint Set w/Gold

michael

very choice vf+/xf

MikeInFL

XF 40 is my guess. Looks nice and crusty. Can't wait to see real pics of it.

nederveit

VF-35 (but the he** do I know?). Crusty.

jcping

VF30

291fifth

VF30, nice coin.

morganbarber

I say numerically, no better than 30, but highly attractive for the grade.

tjkillian

XF-40. Looks very original and unmolested.

Nice coin!

Tom

LanLord

I agree with the VF30 grade, but something keeps drawing my eye to the very top of miss libery's head. I can't see well enough to tell if there is a little ding or what.

Depending upon what if anything is up with her head, it could change my mind. I would need to see a closer image if that.

pontiacinf

vf30- nice coin!

TwoSides2aCoin

I agree.... Very Fine to Extra Fine, but for eye appeal, it doesn't score that great ----sorry Lee but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

It looks like it's seen cleaning or some type of bath to me ....or is this normal in the fields and around the devices on seated liberty quarters ?

LeeG

Thanks for your comments and grade guesses. Here's what PCGS felt about her:

TwoSides2aCoin

sure lee.......just wait for me eh ? ... within seconds of my comment, too
You think you could have posted that about two minutes earlier and helped me save my ego ?

LeeG

TwoSides2aCoin,
Sorry about that They say timing is everything Your opinion of the coin is well taken just like everyone elses. It has equal value. None of us like everyone elses coins and we all have our own opinions of each. We like what we like and give our opinions based on that. No problem here with your comments.

partagas

Nice coin LeeG, solid xf40. I just saw this post and was scrolling down to guess a grade when I saw the slab.

My guess was going to say xf40 maybe a 45. And I was going to add, for all the ones who posted 30 to please sell me all there Seated material they grade VF30. Very nice original crusty coin.

I like it.

mgoodm3

You have my personal SEAL OF APPROVAL™. I think that PCGS got it right.

michael

a super high end vf hence the services said xf40 like i first posted vf+++/xf

and as with new orleans mint totally undervalued and underrated and an above average strike for the weak struck coins of this mint

from what i see in the scan this coin is above average overall for eye appeal

based on other early quarters from this mint

lloks like a beautiful original skin to the coin

LeeG

cause I added my pic's above.

LeeG

TTT for the night crew

roadrunner

Concur with Michael on this. Now what PCGS calls XF40. Head and other details are a tad weak because of strike. The shield is very bold. But I think the surfaces were very lightly cleaned to remove some of the heavier dirt on the coin, hence the open fields a bit shinier in appearance. Far above average compared to the usual scrubbed pieces offered at VF-AU. In XF-AU the O mint seated quarters are one of the best values in silver coinage. It was not long ago that you could find decent XF/AU pieces for as little as $50-100. Heck, it wasn't all that long ago that real "no rub" and full luster MS61/62's could be bought for $500-$750. Now the super slider AU's are called MS62 and run $1500-2500. It's a different world.

roadrunner