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I always have a difficult time grading these. I find it easier to grade more from the reverse than the obverse. looking the wings, claws and leaves. on the obverse I use the clarity and sharpness of the date and lettering. overall the rims give me a better understanding of the amount of wear. I'm higher than the previous grades based on these criteria. VF30
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@panzaldi, I like your description of how you grade. The overall sharpness, lettering, rim, etc is what caught my attention with this quarter when I noticed the date. I honestly felt like everyone would say higher but I feel like clean coins always get graded higher.
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What keeps it from being XF? I'm trying to go off my Photograde app and it's confusing lol
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Lousy strikes on these so I'm thinking this one is EF-40 or real close.
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your coin is weakly struck and the eye appeal is below average. I think these items hold it back from an XF grade. even if we ignore strike the eye appeal alone would hold it to VF35 imo. look at the overall coin not just the high points on a coin when determining grade. photograde offers grading for a perfect coin for that grade. things that it does not consider is strike, luster, & eye appeal. it is however a good starting point to into the correct range.
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Improperly Cleaned, Maybe F12 Details...I cant' really get to VF on it though because there's not enough hair detail on the Obverse, not enough breast feathers or wing feathers on the reverse, Maybe I could get to F12 obverse, VF20 reverse.
Edited by Big-Kingdom
07/26/2019 11:03 am
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It may have been improperly cleaned. An acetone bath won't hurt.
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I'll dip it tonight. Thanks for letting me know bc it didn't look cleaned to me and I never dipped it anyways
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@panz thanks for the explanation. I appreciate all the help I can get and the more I learn
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Reason I say improperly cleaned is the "flatness" of the pictures, it appears to not reflect light properly kind of a flat grey color.
The reverse is basically clean the obverse isn't, suggest to was clean and put face up for a while where it picked up bad color.
A lot of the silver quarters and halves out there that have seen circulation have been cleaned at some point, I think the silver stackers like their silver clean, people try to put a shine on them ect. Just looks too flat grey to me but could be the pictures and lighting. Just an opinion of course.
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