Should I send this SL twenty five cent piece to get graded?

a039 · July 29, 2006 1:51PM

Still working on the new camera ( Nikon 995 ) would you send this coin for slabbing? And if so what would you grade it?TIA

DickyBetz · July 29, 2006 1:53PM

It looks polished or something.

clw54 · July 29, 2006 1:57PM

Is it real?

Bryan1315 · July 29, 2006 1:59PM

I dont know if its polished or even if its real but I am concerned about them rim nicks at 4:00 , they may be big enough for them to BB the coin

Leiana · July 29, 2006 2:00PM

I would send it in. I would also grade it an MS63.

-Amanda

ar18 · July 29, 2006 2:02PM

if real looks polished

a039 · July 29, 2006 2:04PM

<< if real looks polished >>

Send it to PCI then?

123cents · July 29, 2006 2:12PM

It is hard to make a judgement without coin in hand. I don't think it has been polished. MS-63 or MS-64.

a039 · July 29, 2006 2:15PM

<< It is hard to make a judgement without coin in hand. I don't think it has been polished. MS-63 or MS-64. >>

FH?

clw54 · July 29, 2006 2:17PM

Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange here.

123cents · July 29, 2006 2:18PM

I'm not a expert on Standing Liberty Quarters but I think it has a good chance. Just my opinion.

XpipedreamR · July 29, 2006 2:22PM

Maybe you could take another pic with different lighting? It doesn't look right at all, at least not in that picture. These have a different kind of luster than the later SLQ's, but this looks totally flat in the picture.

jdimmick · July 30, 2006 1:41AM

The surfaces dont look right, looks altered!

NumisOxide · July 30, 2006 1:45AM

Looks polished, especially in the first pic.

majorbigtime · July 30, 2006 1:45AM

<< Smoething is very very strange here. >>

Mee too.

MBT

billboat · July 30, 2006 2:07AM

<< The surfaces dont look right, looks altered! >>

Cast?

Whizzard · July 30, 2006 3:43AM

The surfaces do look a little granular. Send it in for authentication/grading.

dizzyfoxx · July 30, 2006 3:50AM

I'm no expert, but something doesn't look 'right' about it.

nankraut · July 30, 2006 6:29AM

Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but I've never seen surface texture like that. Smoething is very very strange here

BillJones · July 30, 2006 6:32AM

<< FH? >>

Most Type 1 1917 Standing Lib quarters have a Full Head. It was only after the U.S. mint people got to messing with the design that the really serious strike problems became common.

The 1917 quarters do have a different surface (as do all silver coins from this era) than the later coins, but it looks really pronounded on this one. I agree with the others that there might be something wrong here.

mirabela · July 30, 2006 6:48AM

It looks whizzed to me. Too bad, as it must have been a really nice AU coin at the minimum before it got messed with. There is no question in my mind that that coin is not original.

291fifth · July 30, 2006 7:30AM

Polished. Save your money.

BlindedByEgo · July 30, 2006 7:45AM

I agree that it may be the light, but the surfaces seem to have a chrome like color and abnormal granularity. Not a great photo from me, but he is one in PCGS MS64 FH

itsnotjustme · July 30, 2006 7:57AM

I would want to see it in hand, but from the photos I suspect polishing. Look at how the luster cartwheels in the slabbed photos. Yours has shine, but not luster.

I hope for you it is really just bad lighting/photo, and a great coin!

ABC123 · July 30, 2006 8:09AM

Why Not ?

TwoSides2aCoin · July 30, 2006 8:18AM

Hi a039...
The last sentence in the description of the Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar in the Red Book of 2007 says:
"No Proof coins of this type were officially issued, but specimen strikings of the first variety, dated 1917, are known to exist.

this is a great place for information, but sometimes.... it is wise to dismiss all advice and do the very thing you wonder if you should do.....for what it's worth
I don't know, but those are my thoughts on it.
I recently contacted the author of the attached link as we briefly exchanged ideas about the moves he made in accordance with advice given. Just follow your hunch !

Food for thought

I am not flaming anyone, just trying to see OBJECTIVELY through the strangeness of the PERFECTION of this specimen. It does invoke WONDER.

Should I send this SL twenty five cent piece to get graded?

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