New pic of a clad Washington I'm fond of.

DHeath

Just fooling around with the camera in natural light, and thought I'd share a pic. The coin has slightly better luster in hand, but the colors are perfect.

NumisOxide

Nice clad toner. What grade is that 1982-P washington?

TheRegulator

That's a really pretty Clad Washington.

What Die State would you assign to it? I think the earlier clad coinage- especially Washingtons- in LDS can look rather attractive. When they start to get that lustrous fuzzy and velvety look from the die flow lines it seems to soften the look.

Again, pretty coin and nice pic...

JJM

I have a simular lookin 66 Jefferson that im holding onto just for fun

DHeath

This coin's a MDS obverse and reverse IMO, as MANY of these coins are terrible examples from badly abraded dies. This one's holdered PCGS MS66. Thanks all.

cladking

I think I've seen this one before and said it was the second nicest I've seen for the date.

They just don't come much nicer for an '82-P. There were no regular mint sets this year and
a paltry 10,000 souvenir sets. Even though more rolls were set aside than other years in this
era there is still a meager number of rolls as well.

This coin is almost certainly not from a souvenir set. I've looked at hundreds and never seen
one that approaches this. I'd guess it's from a Numismatic News set or the flat card generic
set in a manilla envelope.

Any other date this would be an MS-65 but '82-P always gets a bump due to the extreme dif-
ficulty. This coin is still conservatively graded since it's nice enough it could have gotten two
bumps. It is probably technically only MDS but I'd guess it's in the 40,000th ball park so that
makes it EDS in my book. The biggest flaw is the poor fill in LIBERTY which appears to be more
a set-up problem than an alignment problem.

SanctionII

That is a very nice clad Washington. Toned MS clad quarters are difficult to find. When I do hit the jackpot and find some, I pick them up and tuck them away. The best part is that when you find them raw, they are almost always available for little over face value.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

for clad, that is really gorgeous

SanctionII

I have an observation that I hope someone can clarify for me.

IN the picutred coin, the motto "IGWT" has letters that are wide, with sloping sides. I have seen this look on many clad quarters. However there are also clad quarters where the lettering of the motto IGWT is narrow with vertical (90 degree) sides.

Is the difference in the two looks of the lettering of the motto due to die wear (EDS v. LDS) or two differently prepared dies (one with wide sloped lettering and one with narrow vertical lettering).

Hoot

What a superb piece! Such conditional preservation plus the great toning make this a true modern rarity. Thanks for sharing Don!

Hoot