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Care To Guess The Grade: 1857-O Qtr (**UPDATED**)

LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
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image Just picked this one up. Care to guess the grade and provide your thoughts if you like.

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image Edited to add: Coin arrived today and added my pics hereimage This coin helps me stay at #1 in the 1857 Mint Set w/Gold Registry Set. It also keeps 100proof1957 in 2nd place.imageimage


1857 Mint Set w/Gold


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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    very choice vf+/xf
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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    XF 40 is my guess. Looks nice and crusty. Can't wait to see real pics of it. image
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
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    nederveitnederveit Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭
    VF-35 (but the he** do I know?). Crusty.
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    jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭
    VF30
    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    VF30, nice coin.
    All glory is fleeting.
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    morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    I say numerically, no better than 30, but highly attractive for the grade.
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
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    tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    XF-40. Looks very original and unmolested.

    Nice coin!

    Tom
    Tom

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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,756 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree with the VF30 grade, but something keeps drawing my eye to the very top of miss libery's head. I can't see well enough to tell if there is a little ding or what.

    Depending upon what if anything is up with her head, it could change my mind. I would need to see a closer image if that.
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    pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    vf30- nice coin!
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,279 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree.... Very Fine to Extra Fine, but for eye appeal, it doesn't score that great ----sorry Lee but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

    It looks like it's seen cleaning or some type of bath to me image....or is this normal in the fields and around the devices on seated liberty quarters ?

    Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody and be perfect !

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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    image Thanks for your comments and grade guesses. Here's what PCGS felt about her:


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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,279 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sure lee.......just wait for me eh ? image... within seconds of my comment, too image
    You think you could have posted that about two minutes earlier and helped me save my ego ?

    Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody and be perfect !

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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    TwoSides2aCoin,
    Sorry about thatimage They say timing is everythingimage Your opinion of the coin is well taken just like everyone elses. It has equal value. None of us like everyone elses coins and we all have our own opinions of each. We like what we like and give our opinions based on that. No problem here with your comments.image
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    partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin LeeG, solid xf40. I just saw this post and was scrolling down to guess a grade when I saw the slab.

    My guess was going to say xf40 maybe a 45. And I was going to add, for all the ones who posted 30 to please sell me all there Seated material they grade VF30. Very nice original crusty coin.

    I like it.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    You have my personal SEAL OF APPROVAL™. I think that PCGS got it right.
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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    a super high end vf hence the services said xf40 like i first posted vf+++/xf

    and as with new orleans mint totally undervalued and underrated and an above average strike for the weak struck coins of this mint

    from what i see in the scan this coin is above average overall for eye appeal

    based on other early quarters from this mint

    lloks like a beautiful original skin to the coin
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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    image cause I added my pic's above.
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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    TTT for the night crewimage
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    roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Concur with Michael on this. Now what PCGS calls XF40. Head and other details are a tad weak because of strike. The shield is very bold. But I think the surfaces were very lightly cleaned to remove some of the heavier dirt on the coin, hence the open fields a bit shinier in appearance. Far above average compared to the usual scrubbed pieces offered at VF-AU. In XF-AU the O mint seated quarters are one of the best values in silver coinage. It was not long ago that you could find decent XF/AU pieces for as little as $50-100. Heck, it wasn't all that long ago that real "no rub" and full luster MS61/62's could be bought for $500-$750. Now the super slider AU's are called MS62 and run $1500-2500. It's a different world.

    roadrunner
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