Grading skills check for this Barber quarter - grade posted

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 3:28AM

  VF30

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• cmerlo1 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 3:28AM

  Provided it's not BB, I say EF-45

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• robkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 3:31AM

  AU 50... May get BB for some old cleaning.

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• AnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 3:32AM

  AU 50

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• pnylvr Posts: 568

  November 13, 2007 4:32AM

  thanks for the responses. eel I got cheated a little on this one. My thinking was EF-40.
  
  But came back at VF-35.

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 4:34AM

  No, you didn't get cheated, it's a solid VF35. Too much wear for a 40

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• MoneyCollector Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 4:36AM

  A 40 at a minimum needs to have the top feather on the wings delineated, which this doesn't. Nice looking and a nice year!

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• gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭

  November 13, 2007 4:38AM

  
  
  << <i>thanks for the responses. eel I got cheated a little on this one. My thinking was EF-40.
  
  But came back at VF-35. >>
  
  
  
  
  Looking at the obverse hairlines, be happy it came back slabbed at all!!!

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• gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭

  November 13, 2007 4:43AM

  
  
  << <i>A 40 at a minimum needs to have the top feather on the wings delineated, which this doesn't. Nice looking and a nice year! >>
  
  
  
  
  Is a complete band required also for 40?

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• Mowgli Posts: 1,219 ✭

  November 13, 2007 4:48AM

  
  
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  << <i>A 40 at a minimum needs to have the top feather on the wings delineated, which this doesn't. Nice looking and a nice year! >>
  
  
  
  
  Is a complete band required also for 40? >>
  
  
  
  Top feather delineation and a complete band are both required for an XF40. I looked at dozens of slabbed VF35s and this looks better than some but is still a 35; a nice 35.

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• pnylvr Posts: 568

  November 13, 2007 4:51AM

  Thanks for your input. As always, this is one of the greatest forums. I would have likely not submitted this coin if not for some of you saying that the hairlines did not look harsh enough for a bodybag. Thanks again.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 5:09AM

  Here's a OGH VF-35 Barber... love the reverse on yours
  
  

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• dogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭

  November 13, 2007 5:23AM

  I'm seeing alot of Barber Halves get xf40's without a complete band in pcgs holders. Strike softness is an issue in the forhead area on some earlier "S" mint coins and often times you will have a full wing seperation reverse without a full lower band obverse. It seems that when you reach the level of both complete details, there becomes enough luster and overall look to justify a 45. Quarters are a little different. Wingtips seem to always be softer struck and wear very quickly, especially "O" and some "P" mint issues, so you can have an xf quality band but loose it on the reverse.
  I'd like your chances of getting a 40 on that if the obverse hairlines weren't evident. You may have just gotten "netted".
  
  Edited to say: Nah, I just looked again. Not a 40.

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