Eye Candy Barber Quarter

[Morsecode]

This one jumped out at me down at the coin shop. It looked so odd in this condition, I first thought it was a foreign. Usually only ever encounter these as unwanted slicks in a 90% stack.

[cwgii]

Deeper pockets than me. A quick look at feebay was $800-1100

[Morsecode]

Hundreds less than the low figure. The main reason I bought it.

[Lemon Thrower]

nice coin.

I once pulled an 1892-S (key date) half from a bag of 90% but its only in good condition.

[Saabman]

Gorgeous!

[Chaboo]

Great grab! Thank you for sharing.

[TXSTARFIRE]

Beautiful coin!

[cwgii]

It does beg the question. Did the dealer not know what he had. As in he mainly deals in dollars etc. or did he ,,steal,, it and just marked it up, 100%. Or maybe, he had reason to believe that the grade would not hold up to regrading...

[silverflake]

That's a beauty for sure! Can you imagine back in the early 1900s going into a bank and asking for change for a dollar in quarters and getting 4 fresh uncirculated Barbers from the teller? Of course back then you wouldn't know what we know but imagine that sizzling sparkle on a group of Barber quarters that most people plopped into their pocket.

Nice pickup!

[MaxGravy]

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I've seen a lot of barber quarters but nothing even close to that one.

[Morsecode]

It does beg the question. Did the dealer not know what he had. As in he mainly deals in dollars etc. or did he ,,steal,, it and just marked it up, 100%. Or maybe, he had reason to believe that the grade would not hold up to regrading...

He's mostly bullion. When he buys numi stuff I'm sure it's to his advantage. I mean, who sells a graded coin to a dealer other than someone willing to off-load it cheap.

Your point about regrading is on point though, and one that has been bothering me for a while. There seems to be this idea going around that PCGS or NGC coins must, if they are to remain credible, be sent back to PCGS or NGC every 8 - 10 years to be re-slabbed in the 'appropriate' holder for the current market. This is a huge self-inflicted scam. If the perception is that I must have my entire collection of Mint State coins updated to a shiny new plastic box to be considered accurately graded...whew! How could it not be a scam? It's almost as if the grades have an expiration date.

It is a disturbing trend. And I don't see the coin graders rushing in to defend their own standards of the past 25 years.

[cwgii]

Do the ,, criteria,, change for grading. I know as a lumber grader in the early 80s, I had to change , as they,, loosened,, the grades.

[Morsecode]

They shouldn't stray too much, unless going from PCGS to NGC or vice versa. In-house standards I would hope have some consistency. What criteria for judging a Morgan dollar in 2025 could possibly change from what were considered benchmarks back in 1995? That's a coin that has been scrutinized every which way for decades.