Posted 04/30/2011 11:11 pm
Coincidental time on the post! I JUST got done with my new CherryPickers' Guide looking through a bunch Washington quarters trying to ID their reverses. I never knew before this that there were different types. Now it seems a pretty easy task.
Type A was first, had the details sharpened on it to make Type B, which was sharpened further in 1965 to make type C. Circulation clad coins are Cs.
To identify the type, look at the right tip of the E's bottom "arm" and the tail end of the S's bottom curl. In a type A & C these two features are very. very close to touching each other. In type B there is an obvious space between them.
Page 150 says all proofs from 1936-1964, of 1968-1972 are type B. If you have one - use it to see the gap.
So how do you tell an A from a C? Type C has much greater detail all around. I found the easiest way to tell is to look at the eagle's tail feathers. The tail feathers in type A are so faint compared to type C they almost look like ghost images.
I hope this helps.
Type A was first, had the details sharpened on it to make Type B, which was sharpened further in 1965 to make type C. Circulation clad coins are Cs.
To identify the type, look at the right tip of the E's bottom "arm" and the tail end of the S's bottom curl. In a type A & C these two features are very. very close to touching each other. In type B there is an obvious space between them.
Page 150 says all proofs from 1936-1964, of 1968-1972 are type B. If you have one - use it to see the gap.
So how do you tell an A from a C? Type C has much greater detail all around. I found the easiest way to tell is to look at the eagle's tail feathers. The tail feathers in type A are so faint compared to type C they almost look like ghost images.
I hope this helps.
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Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
Edited by Earle42
04/30/2011 11:23 pm
04/30/2011 11:23 pm
