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logger7logger7 Posts: 8,812 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I picked up this Bust quarter at a shop, how do I do attribution on it? Would you folks figure it at VG?


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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,587 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would only give it a Good-6. Some aspects of it look better, but you don't have very much bust detail.

    As for the variety, the latest book is not easy to work with for lower grade with only pictures.

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  • NorthStarNorthStar Posts: 85 ✭✭✭

    I think your quarter is a B-3 variety, The reverse has a gap in the dentils over E2 . The obverse star 13 is distant from the bust. This is from the Bust quarter book by Rory Rea. There are others on this forum with a far better eye for variety attribution. As for the grade...G6 to VG?

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,534 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good 6. Just not enough detail left to justify a VG8. I'm not the one to ask about varieties in this series. I don't think I have ever actually owned one.

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,812 ✭✭✭✭✭


    A couple non-scanner images.

    Coinfacts shows a lot of G to VG examples.

  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would say VG-8. Surfaces look great!

  • dsessomdsessom Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Super nice find for a local shop! And most definitely worth submitting for grading. I can't see anything that would keep it from straight grading, and it might go VG8, although G6 is more likely. It depends on how tough they are on this series/year.

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat circ. cameo appearance.
    Wonderful album coin!
    If graded, G06 is my gut grade.

    peacockcoins

  • TonedeafTonedeaf Posts: 244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is an 1806. The bottom left serif is also missing on the "T" in Liberty as well as the "1" in the date.


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice old quarter.... I am not very good at the lower grades, but would be interested if I saw it at a show... Might buy it... Cheers, RickO

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,357 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2023 7:26AM

    @Tonedeaf said:
    Here is an 1806. The bottom left serif is also missing on the "T" in Liberty as well as the "1" in the date.

    That coin was probably net graded for the reverse rim damage, and has too much detail to be used to define the VG10 grade.

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  • BustquarterhoundBustquarterhound Posts: 135 ✭✭✭

    Definitely a B-3 the 5 in date doesn't touch the bust. The B-2 the 5 touches the bust. Nice piece.

  • alaura22alaura22 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You mean the 6 .......right?

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,624 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would call it a G-6 but nice looking coin.

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