Test your grading skills: MS66 vs MS67 Mayflower Compact Quarters - REVEALED In Comments
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This will be an interesting test to see if the forum would grade these the same as PCGS just did. I'll do this with a poll.
These two Mayflower Compact Quarters are either PCGS MS66 or MS67. Guess the grades. Remember you can rt-click --> open in new tab to see bigger photos.
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Test your grading skills: MS66 vs MS67 Mayflower Compact Quarters - REVEALED In Comments
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I guessed both 66 but if either of them got a 67 it should be coin A imho.
Im not hearing any on higher grades, its early yet thou
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B has an immediately noticeable mark on the obverse.
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I think A is 67 based on the marks on the obv as well
I like coin A better. Looks frostier and is overall cleaner. So I voted 67 for coin A, 66 for coin B.
Though I almost voted 66 for both.
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Both of them MS66.
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Coin B has the brighter luster which often leads the graders to give it an extra point, but it’s got many minor marks which are not indicative of an MS-67. MS-67 is a special maximum grade that covers the best made for circulation, non mint set coins. I don’t see either of the coins as really exceptional.
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My personal standards are much tighter than the graders. I'd call A an MS65 with more than 12 ticks/scrapes particularly that one at the right edge of his hat. B I would say an MS64, for what appears to be gouges from another coin contact between the two heads. PCGS probably gave them both an MS66.
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I feel if PCGS gave these coins 66, it was a gift. The chatter in the fields would lead me to grade them 64 and 65. I guess after submitting Moderns for 20+ years maybe I'm getting cynical and more conservative but those quarters would never be submitted by me because I would have rec'd 64's or 65's tops.
Never mind the grade- couldn't they have found a more prominent location for the mint mark and designer's initials? Like maybe on the forehead of the man and woman?
Maybe my least favorite design. Reverse is derivative of the commemorative half $. Not to mention, it is 150 years before the Revolutionary Peace.
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There are far too many marks on the coins for my taste to warrant even a 66 or 67. Unless you’re looking for a 68, it’s not worth slabbing a modern coin.
A has lots of hits on the sail rigging compared to B
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Pulled the trigger too soon. The other way around.
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I won't say the "correct" answer but the PCGS grades are:
A=67
B=66
C was the correct answer and had the most votes, but barely.
I thought this was one was interesting because A has tons of scattered (and IMO) significant marks. The guy's hat & shirt, the ladie's arm, the ship's sail and arms, and the fields have light marks. I felt A had much cleaner fields (except the obverse under U which I thought was minor but does catch the eye, and much cleaner devices. I can certainly understand thinking that A was MS66. I would have been in the D camp had I not been the one to post this.
At 65, no, but at 66 these sell for more than grading costs on ebay and at 67 decent profits can be made.
I'm not feeling 67 vibes on either of them.
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Thanks for this interesting photograde exercise.