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What's The Grade Fo This 1908 Quarter Eagle

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Here is an example of the first year of issue for the revolutioary $2.50 Indian design. All of the design elements were below the fields of the design. That was supposed to make the coin last longer.

So how would you grade this one?

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MS-64
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MS-63.
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Pics are tough to grade high end gold. My first thought was MS64 so I'll go with that
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I will guess MS-64. Beautiful coin!
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Yes, it is an MS-64. My photography does not do this coin justice. It has great eye appeal. If I could put together the whole set of $2.50 Indians that looked like this in Mint State, I would do it. I do have a raw set in a Capital Plastics holder than I put together back in the 1980s.

By the way for the 1908 $2.50 gold, you can't go by the wing feathers on the eagle's shoulder. They were flat struck on every example of this date that I have seen. A dealer more than 25 years ago told me he had seen a fully struck example, but I've never seen one. The mint corrected that weakness the following year.
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Very nice!
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