1943 Washington Quarter

It does look original but for some reason "weak"

It is a late die state coin, those are heavy die flow lines. I would agree with MS64, no major contact marks.

The die flow lines are perfectly normal as others have stated but I'm surprised no one else finds the luster to look odd? I bet if you held that coin at the right angle and under the right light you would notice some mint colored spots.

As far as the luster goes, I am wondering, for a coin in the die's beginning and prime life I would expect the luster to have tremendous eye appeal, how ever I would think that the later die states luster's diminish, I could be wrong, but I do have some Morgans where the dies are really ending there life, they definitely don't cartwheel very well.. maybe some one else can chime in about luster and die's age....

Aladinslamp,
I'm not sure if there's a correlation or not, but I should. I have recognized several weakly struck coins with muted luster and also weakly struck coins with vibrant luster. If you took the series you could almost break it down into sub categories of years and mints with a particular type of luster (ie.. frosty, extremely brilliant, etc..). This 43 just doesn't look right to me or seem to fit the luster type I'm accustomed to seeing for that year. I apologize if I appear to be over-critical Pinenut. There's a good chance the photos are just deceiving me. I look at a lot of these and am speaking objectively.

It is quite possible that the appearance of the luster is entirely a function of the seller's photography. When I was first learning how to use my digital camera to image coins and playing around with different lighting conditions, I had a few of my Washingtons turn out with a similar frosty appearance.

I will be the first to admit, as I kick my own ARSE that When I was younger in the 60's I collected a good many of nice washington only to trade them off to my friends who like them more than I did at the time..I know too that the lighting, I'm still working on in photo's is much to be desired, I took some tonight and there gold looking even thought the coins are toned.....However.. despite the coins luster shown I think the flow lines of the strike speak for a lot of what the coin exibit's....the die is obviously older in production...I can only compare the examples of this to other coins...And I doubt not your insight to luster, I only give my thoughts of why the general overall appearance which is die degraded in my thoughts. not my opinion of luster Which I would have keep all my Washington quarters!

Jessie, BELIEVE ME, I'm working on that, my pic's just don't represent what my photo's look like, I get beat up a bit from them......