What is the highest graded PCGS pre 1990, non mint set, MS clad dime, quarter & half?

SanctionII

What date, mint and grade?

If I had to guess, it would be that MS67 is probably the highest grade assigned and that there are very very few slabbed coins with a 67 grade. Further, I would suspect that grades of MS 66 are also very, very unusual.

If anyone has a pop top pre 1990 slabbed dime, quarter or half, post pics please. Also, tell us the story surrounding your coin (i.e. did you find it and make it yourself?).

cladking

I've seen remarkable PL's in circulation which have all the earmarks of
coins made for circulation. These would easily grade very high if they
had made it out of the mint without getting banged up. Mostly these
are later date (post-1986) but these did exist at least to the advent
of clads. It's probably fewer than about .02% of dimes that would have
a shot at extremely high grade and in most dates fewer than .1% will
make it out of the mint unscathed. (it may be even lower now)

It's fairly safe to suggest that many dates weren't made and issued
nice but it's far safer to suggest that the number of these coins that
survive may be zero. In any case it would be zero for most dates be-
cause there was almost zero interest in saving any coins that were
just clad and horribly made. Fewer than .0001% of some dates were
saved (like the '89-D).

The answer really isn't important anyway for practical purposes simply
because you can't tell a circulation issue from a mint set coin. The only
thing you can say for sure is that mint set coins always average far bet-
ter than circulation issues and the very best coins made each year are
usually found in the mint sets. Once a coin is out of the bag or the set
they are indistinguishable.

Of course there are very few of the varieties which appear in sets and
the '82 and '83 dimes don't appear in sets. Most of the varieties which
do appear in mint sets are almost unknown from other sources.

clackamas

MS68, I only own the dime in MS68 - Check out the Clackamas 1968 Set for pics, I got them from Nick. I don't own the MS68 quarters.

TomB

I believe there are a few MS69FB 1939-D Mercs.