Here is a pleasing example of this popular rarity, a coin with good overall aesthetics and quality surfaces for the assigned grade. The obverse enjoys lively rose, gold, blue, and lilac gray throughout while the reverse tends more toward golden gray. Though some old and tiny contact marks can be found with diligence, none of them are severe enough to warrant individual mention here. The 1796 quarter dollar is an unmistakable fact of life among numismatists -- type collectors have to have an example for completeness, and early quarter specialists simply have to have one, period. The present specimen is delightfully choice for the grade and warrants close examination for a full appreciation of the overall quality. Even at "just" Fine-15, as here, the bidding audience will be wide and the bidding activity will be just a trifle shy of frantic -- just as it always happens whenever a solid collector-grade example of this rarity comes into the public auction venue. ,,,,
