****New pics by Mark Goodman****My first star.

[jesbroken]

I sent in my yearly freebie5 and NGC readily acknowledged that I do not have a clue as to the toning process for Indians, which I had previously been assured that was so by Mark and several others on the board. I guess someone many years ago helped these coins with their color, but most of the toning occured while I owned them stored in 2X2's, which appears to not be a good idea.

BUT, both my silver 1948 mint set coins I sent in were graded well and the 1948D Washington received an MS65* while the 1948D Franklin received an MS64FBL. A little too much chatter on the obverse of the Franklin but the reverse is clean. The photo of the quarter obverse is actually nearly like the reverse in color but for some reason came out darker than the reverse. Great photography by a great copper color specialist. Both were beautiful coins in my eyes, but then so were the Indians. Such is life.

Jim

 

EDITED TO ADD: Here are Mark's photos of two of my birthyear quarters from my 1948 mint set, the 1948S is toned akin to these but has not made it back from NGC yet. I'll get it photo'd by Mark then. Now you may be able to see why this 1948d garnered a plus. I do, but then it is mine.

 

 

 

[MarkFeld]

Jim, unfortunately, your image of the quarter doesn't allow us to see the eye-appeal of the coin, which apparently led to the NGC star. You might know how good it looks, but it's not evident from that image.

[jesbroken]

Sorry, Mark, I have taken 10 or so additional pics and they just appear grainy rather than the prooflike surfaces that this coin possesses. Washington's hair is so well defined but I cannot get it to appear on camera as it is inhand. My bad.

Here are a couple of additional pics--first in direct daylight and the other with an incandescent bulb. Still nothing like inhand.

Jim

 

 

[SkyMan]

As Mark mentioned, hard to tell much with the images, but the coins do appear to be nicely struck. (thumbs u

[bsshog40]

Good deal on the grades and the Star Jim. If I were you, a dozen or so more pics of the washie til you get the beauty to shine thru.

[jesbroken]

More pics didn't seem to help, Bobby. So, I've elected to send this coin and another to Mark Goodman for some quality workmanship. Thanks for your replies.

Jim

[erwindoc]

Congrats! I am still waiting for my first star. BTW, nice quarter!

[jesbroken]

I've bumped this post up ttt so you can view Mark's far better photos of the 1948d and 1948p Washington Quarters.

Thank you for your interest.

Jim

[PCcoins]

You just never know when ngc will hand out a Star*, they are very inconsistent IMO.

 

But it's hard to tell what the toning looks like from the images