You Vs. PCGS 1927 Standing Liberty Quarter

None of us picked up on the 'details cleaning'.
Perhaps that is a result of the lighting used for the image?

I would have never thought that coin was cleaned, nice natural looking patina actually.
I would have guessed 64, but who cares, great coin for the book

I'm not sure what the initial photos did but not one of us saw that coming and based on the detailed close ups of the coin, I would love to sit and talk with the graders working that shift and get an idea what they saw




Graders are not holy men and graders are often as inaccurate as they are accurate. On any given day the same coin could get varying grades dependent upon a lot of factors.

No disrespect to the grader but it is subjective. Recently I saw a 1956 mint set sent in in original packaging come back from ngc with the quarter obverse cleaned. For those that don't know two graders look at the coin only if they don't agree a third looks at it and the majority wins. Could be just like here split. I think a great buying opportunity for you but if I were the seller I would have sent it back in. I have seen occasions where they changed their opinion. Especially if it's 5 years or more since grading. I give more credit to pcgs just because of the sloppy job they do at ngc. Mismarked labels are about 10 to 1 which makes me wonder about the workload at Ngc. Like anything else you get better results if the employee is able to take the time nessesary to be accurate. When I see the the number of mistakes getting past ngc's quality controll it tells me their being rushed.