Lem E

Hello, and welcome. Hope you enjoy it here.

Not worth grading in my opinion. Like you said, too many milk spots. Probably cheaper to buy one already graded.

Almost looks burned through with something.

14 minutes ago, Sharann said:

I want to make sure I am understanding this correctly. San Francisco's last year to produce quarters was 1954 until 1969 when they began to produce them for mint sets only. Are they still not producing quarters in San Francisco? 

So any quarters with an S mint mark after 1954 are from broken mint sets only. 

https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/s-mint-quarters-from-us-mint-bring-premiums.html

I like that 1855 double struck flying eagle.

8 hours ago, J P Mashoke said:

Well look what I found hunting last night . I have not seen any of these in 11 years. People must have herded them all up in 2010 and put them away. Did anyone here save them???

Lowest mintage of all the 09s. Nice find. I saved pieces for my album. Mostly find log sitters.

22 minutes ago, Sharann said:

 

Thank you kindly for the pic. I would say this is maybe a grease strike through as well. Maybe on the top of the S too. Looks like Jerry was very liberal with his grease that day. P.S. Those two moles on his neck look suspicious. He may want to have those checked.

May have the same issue on the E in CENTS as well. Can you send a close up of the word cents?

Ok I just nearly fried my brain on your other question, but Ill try this one too. Looks like it is a D mintmark with a possible partial grease strike through. No crackpot theories on this one.

Ok. I may have looked at this too long and am overthinking, but... Logically this would just be a case of PMD, however, (and this is only a far fetched theory) say the blob on the steps is a die chip. The chip falls on the planchet and creates a strike through on the mintmark. You just happened to find the coin that was struck when the chip broke and fell out. The blob/die chip(?) is intriguing because it looks similar in size to the mintmark spot and I can’t help but wonder if the mintmark damage and the die chip(?) are related somehow. Like I said, far fetched theory, but I guess technically possible. Most likely PMD, but with these crazy coins, you never know.

Looks like just a D mintmark with a hint of PMD. Not quite sure what that little blob on the step underneath is though. 

 Better dig you out a little bigger rat hole my friend.

I think they also had a lot of trouble with the plastic packaging they came in. Milk spots as well, so a good one is probably hard to find.

I have seen a lot of Robec’s work on the threads here. Top notch all the way. Congrats on the pics and the 02 Indian. Looks fantastic.

1 hour ago, Quintus Arrius said:

Lemme see...  How shall I word this... Okay, got it:  I know this is blasphemous bordering on the sacrilegious but, be honest, have you ever experienced a lapse of judgment and thought, if only for a fleeting moment, and wondered what would happen if you sprayed WD-40 on this, both sides, and let it sit overnight?  That's the one "dip" or "cleaning agent" I have never heard mentioned in any post.

Interesting... I will have to admit, I am more of a PB Blaster guy myself.

30 minutes ago, rocket23 said:

what did the mercury grade??

MS64 FB...if you were referring to mine that is.