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Should I send this SL twenty five cent piece to get graded?

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Still working on the new camera ( Nikon 995 ) would you send this coin for slabbing? And if so what would you grade it?TIAimageimage

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  • It looks polished or something.image
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Is it real?
  • I dont know if its polished or even if its real but I am concerned about them rim nicks at 4:00 , they may be big enough for them to BB the coin
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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349
    I would send it in. I would also grade it an MS63. image

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  • ar18ar18 Posts: 1,122
    if real looks polished
  • a039a039 Posts: 1,546


    << <i>if real looks polished >>




    Send it to PCI then?image
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    It is hard to make a judgement without coin in hand. I don't think it has been polished. MS-63 or MS-64.
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  • a039a039 Posts: 1,546


    << <i>It is hard to make a judgement without coin in hand. I don't think it has been polished. MS-63 or MS-64. >>



    FH?
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange here.
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    I'm not a expert on Standing Liberty Quarters but I think it has a good chance. Just my opinion.
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Maybe you could take another pic with different lighting? It doesn't look right at all, at least not in that picture. These have a different kind of luster than the later SLQ's, but this looks totally flat in the picture.
  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The surfaces dont look right, looks altered!
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks polished, especially in the first pic.


  • << <i> Smoething is very very strange here. >>





    Mee too.

    MBT


  • << <i>The surfaces dont look right, looks altered! >>



    Cast?
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  • The surfaces do look a little granular. Send it in for authentication/grading.
    What do you think, Mr. Bigglesworth?
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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I'm no expert, but something doesn't look 'right' about it.image
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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange hereimage
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,757 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>FH? >>



    Most Type 1 1917 Standing Lib quarters have a Full Head. It was only after the U.S. mint people got to messing with the design that the really serious strike problems became common.

    The 1917 quarters do have a different surface (as do all silver coins from this era) than the later coins, but it looks really pronounded on this one. I agree with the others that there might be something wrong here.
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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks whizzed to me. Too bad, as it must have been a really nice AU coin at the minimum before it got messed with. There is no question in my mind that that coin is not original.
    mirabela
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Polished. Save your money.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree that it may be the light, but the surfaces seem to have a chrome like color and abnormal granularity. Not a great photo from me, but he is one in PCGS MS64 FH

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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    I would want to see it in hand, but from the photos I suspect polishing. Look at how the luster cartwheels in the slabbed photos. Yours has shine, but not luster.

    I hope for you it is really just bad lighting/photo, and a great coin!
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  • Why Not ?
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,552 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hi a039...
    The last sentence in the description of the Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar in the Red Book of 2007 says:
    "No Proof coins of this type were officially issued, but specimen strikings of the first variety, dated 1917, are known to exist.

    this is a great place for information, but sometimes.... it is wise to dismiss all advice and do the very thing you wonder if you should do.....for what it's worth
    I don't know, but those are my thoughts on it.
    I recently contacted the author of the attached link as we briefly exchanged ideas about the moves he made in accordance with advice given. Just follow your hunch !

    Food for thought image

    I am not flaming anyone, just trying to see OBJECTIVELY through the strangeness of the PERFECTION of this specimen. It does invoke WONDER.

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