1924 Standing Liberty Quarter

That matter is up for debate. I think your coin does NOT get it's grade lowered to VG.

Well, you could send it to PCGS and they will give you their opinion, which many would accept, but for this coin, that would not really be all that cost effective.

I'm still fairly new to all of this and have never visited one of the local coin shops. How is junk silver priced, by the ounce? Do the dealers charge the current price of silver or do they have their own prices made up since the coins are only 90% silver? How many quarters were you able to get for the $168?

I was mainly ribbing the "experts" here...certainly all that responded are well-respected posters at CCF, and I appreciate the input of each. Although this is a new arena of collecting for me, I do appreciate that I'm maybe looking at a $15 coin here. Just trying to learn what I can, and enjoying myself along the way.

The $168 was face value of the quarters, ie. 672 of them. My dealer was getting 13x face for them, or $3.25 each as bullion. I think that's a reasonable price from what I've learned here, and is driven off the current market price for silver. In total it was over $2,000 of silver. I believe the "junk" silver is generally sold in a multiple of face value and some lots may be mixed denominations of dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars or separated by denomination.

I settled up with him yesterday returning the unwanted ones, and traded 4 rolls of 40% halves at $45 each for the quarters I wanted to keep. So in reality I kept 53 90% silver quarters for a $40 investment as the halves were found in rolls/hunts.

I agree with Johnny;'s explanation. My first impression was that only the 4 was visible, which is why I graded it VG-8. Looking at it again, a VG-10 seems fair. It's only my opinion though, I understand why others would feel differently. Still a nice coin and definitely a nice find for 13x face.

Dcreek...yes, before 1925 the SLQ's were known for the date wearing out quickly. It was the high point on the coin.

Johnny wasn't saying the coin had a weak strike. He was making a comparison to how weakly struck coins are graded.

I don't see how the date area on this coin would be cause for a TPG to refuse grading. But of course this coin is not worth submitting. There are plenty of examples of TGP graded coins in higher grades than this one with the date almost completely gone.

( edited to get rid of double negative )

I am pretty certain from having it in hand that the date is NOT treated, I think it's more an issue of a shaky hand on the camera through a 10x loupe.