1972-d quarter brilliant no contrast undipped white and strongly prooflike

[michael]

if the coin 72-d quarter is a really nice raw ms65 with the reverse even nicer with strongly prooflike surfaces as the coin looks proof from a glance and with a wire rim obverse and undipped white and a brilliant proof like with no contrast between the devices and fields

 

does this date usually come like this?

 

and a full strike too

 

 

is there a collecgtor demand for this coin? again do these coins usually come prooflike like this/? common uncommon?

 

collectible?

 

any comments?

 

 

michael

[cladking]

The '72-D is the most frequently encountered eagle reverse clad quarter in PL. Full strikes are unusual on this date though so it might still be something pretty special.

[michael]

thanks for the information

 

oh and i reread my thread again and the reverse is ms66++ but the obverse is only ms65

 

but the obverse is much more strongly prooflike almost looks like a proof washington quarter

 

again thanks for the great information!!!!

 

since i have never seen one before it looked really good to me

 

sounds like this coin usually comes this way

 

oh well

 

michael

[cladking]

The mintage of the '72-D was 311 million with about 2 3/4 million of these in mint sets. A few of those made for circulation would be PL (perhaps about 1%), but the lions share of these went into circulation. Indeed I just recieved a PL '72-D in change last week which was worn only to a nice XF. Perhaps a few thousand of these survive in unc but many of these will be lower grade. In the mint sets about 5% of the coins would be strongly PL and most of these will also be high grade. While most of the mint sets are gone now it's diificult to say how many of the gem D quarters were saved. There are probably around 20,000 nice gem '72-D PL quarters available on the market (plus whatever were saved out of the already destroyed mint sets). This makes it far and away the most common of the clads in PL from that era. There are some coins which are virtually unknown in PL. Coins like the '74 Ike or an '83-P quarter will prove virtually impossible. Some coins will prove difficult just in high grade (like a '69 quarter) and some varieties aren't found even in unc.

 

As a rule it's the Ikes which are toughest in PL and probably dimes which are easiest. Still there are some dimes which I've never seen in PL. I didn't mean to imply that your '72-D is mere pocket change, just that it's not a scarcity.

[michael]

thnaks for the great information cladking

 

 

michael

 

 

i really like the "look" of this coin i got

[DonHeath]

Michael, I'm glad you're looking at these guys. With your serious eye, you'll find plenty of fun. I thought you might like a look at an 82-P with a pretty PL surface. I chose to contrast it with an 82-D with a normal finish.

 

[michael]

thanks don

 

and both are interesting coins i see on the prooflike 82-d on the left it also has a wire rim too

 

 

i really like it

 

 

but yet is not as strongly struck on the reverse as the regular non pl coin but i will still take the pl any day of the week

 

 

michael