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

a039

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

DickyBetz

It looks polished or something.

clw54

Is it real?

Bryan1315

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

Leiana

I would send it in. I would also grade it an MS63.

-Amanda

ar18

if real looks polished

a039

<< <i>if real looks polished >>




Send it to PCI then?

123cents

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

a039

<< <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?

clw54

Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange here.

123cents

I'm not a expert on Standing Liberty Quarters but I think it has a good chance. Just my opinion.

XpipedreamR

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.

jdimmick

The surfaces dont look right, looks altered!

NumisOxide

Looks polished, especially in the first pic.

majorbigtime

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





Mee too.

MBT

billboat

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



Cast?

Whizzard

The surfaces do look a little granular. Send it in for authentication/grading.

dizzyfoxx

I'm no expert, but something doesn't look 'right' about it.

nankraut

Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange here

BillJones

<< <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.

mirabela

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.

291fifth

Polished. Save your money.

BlindedByEgo

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

itsnotjustme

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!

ABC123

Why Not ?

TwoSides2aCoin

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

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