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This 1898-O Barber quarter is a pretty nice coin, I think, for its wear level, with lots of originality and a great circulation cameo -- but somehow someone decided to put it into an NGC holder. (!!) It appears it was part of a large batch of coins submitted at once by a dealer. The attractive eye appeal + what basically amounted to a free slab is a nice bargain. Thoughts on a grade vs. NGC? Shouldn't be that terribly difficult...     Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Just tips the scale at G-06 .  |
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G-04. But I like the circulation cameo.
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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G04, not sure why it was slabbed, unless it had sentimental value of some sort.
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The seller had an entire run of Barber quarters and Halves, all in fresher NGC slabs, almost none of which would have merited the expense of a slab in my opinion. The only ones I thought probably needed slabs were an 1897-O Half in G6, & a 1914 Half G4, and a 1901-O Quarter G4. This was the only one that I saw out of 30 or 40 coins, that I liked enough to bid on. More than likely, the dealer/seller just sends out bulk lots to NGC to take advantage of the pricing, and uses "filler" coins to meet the minimum coin requirements. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
09/29/2017 8:43 pm
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Probably submitted in a group to bring costs down, agree with the G6 estimates above.
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NGC graded this coin G4. I thought it looked G6, and CCF seems to mostly agree.
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