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2017-P Washington Quarter · graded MS68

2017-P Washington Quarter in MS68

What does MS68 mean on a 2017-P Washington quarter?

A 2017-P Washington quarter graded MS68 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and MS68 is what a grader called the surface that survived. What that looks like on this coin is below. The nearest grade of this date this site does have a researched figure for is Mint State (MS-65), at $1 to $5, from sales and public data.

A 2017-P Washington quarter is one of 5 reverse designs struck at that mint that year, and this page covers all 5, so the range above runs from the commonest of them in MS68 to the scarcest. Within a single design the spread is narrower than it looks here; between them it is what decides whether a roll is worth sorting.

What MS68 means

A 2017-P Washington quarter in Mint State (MS-68) is finer than all but a handful ever certified: no wear, lustre that is complete and undisturbed, and at most one or two marks small enough that a grader had to hunt for them. Almost nothing from a circulating mintage survives at this level, because the coin had to escape the bag, the counting machine and sixty years of storage untouched.

A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade MS-68. They are the same grade and the same 2017-P Washington quarter.

Where this grade sits

The grades a 2017-P Washington quarter is given run from PO1 to MS70. One step up from MS68 is Mint State (MS-69). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.

How to check this yourself

Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 2017-P Washington quarter in MS68, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. Until this site has a researched figure for this grade, that search is the answer — take the middle of several recent sales rather than the highest.

Completed sales of a 2017-P Washington Quarter in MS68 →

Where these figures come from

We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.

Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.

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