1840 O Seated Liberty Quarter, No Drapery, Grade Request

No drapery, mint mark to the far left, Briggs Obverse 1 Reverse 1 Eagle has no toungue like previous years.

AU55 may go details for an old cleaning, hope not.

Agreed with AU55, but without better pics I am inclined to think details.

I also agree with Frog, photos too bright to get a feel for what the actual surfaces look like.

These last photos show areas of possible smoothing better, sorry to say it's definitely going to be a details when that occurs. Still a really nice looking quarter.

I checked Briggs Seated quarter book again, definitely Obverse 1 Reverse A, the 8 is triple punched though very tough to see (Die state A says it is very faded and hard to tell), nothing mentioned on the mint mark doubling, but from it's position it's has to be Rev A, (Die State is not A on the reverse as that would imply the mint mark was worn to the point of being hard to see), the doubling could be some minor Strike Doubling. This coin does exhibit a touch of surface granulation which leads me to believe it came out of the "New Orleans Hoard" which were quarters known with dull and/or corroded surfaces. That would also explain a need to smooth the surface in areas in hopes of improving the eye appeal. Those coins were also known to be softly struck in the head, surrounding stars and dentils on the obverse.

Thank you, West! I appreciate the response! It's nice to see there are people with this level of knowledge about certain coin types.

Another whizzed coin. Your blow up of the mint mark clearly shows the brush pits.

I don't think it's been whizzed, it does have that look, but this date is also known to be pitted and rough, you can see the smoothing areas above Liberty's head and in the dark area on the left side of her right arm, looks like a deep gouge may have been worked on to cover it up. The comment from the "New Orleans Hoard" came directly from Larry Briggs Seated quarter book, he is the well known expert on this series.