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Pillar of the Community
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Is AU-59 a grade? :)
I think it looks a little bit circulated, so I'm going high AU, too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MS63-64. I think it's a weakish strike. If it's AU, it's a nice AU58. AU50-53 tends to actually be an ugly middle-ground between high-AU and XF; the luster on this coin is too nice for low-AU.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Valued Member
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I like when the guys with high number of posts say "MS" ;-)
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd say it would be a 63 to 64 coin.
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Grading has changed drastically over the years, but whether or not a coin has circulated, hasn't. If the owner was an old-time collector who thought it circulated in-hand (something we can't see), I'm inclined to agree with him.
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Valued Member
United States
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Yeah, it's hard to say how old he was in the late 70s, as I was only 16, so everyone was old! But I want to say he was probably 70 or so in 1979. And he definitely thought it was an AU-50. Is the issue whether the smudges next to "In God" and the smudge next to the (I assume) letter signature of the designer on the right, are actual circulation damage or part of a poor strike?
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Valued Member
Canada
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AU 58...Minor wear on the bottom leaf that passes over the coloumn. The speration has merged together.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That isn't among the highest points on the reverse, so that would be caused by strike weakness, not wear. It's common for the bottom diagonal band to be flatter because of strike. In fact, the whole bottom part of the fasces can be nearly flat on a poorly struck example. For example, this poorly struck MS67:  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Captain, it looks like the "In God We Trust" is messed up too, espeecially the "E" in WE, is that a poor strike?It almost looks like that phrase the date are doubled a bit, or is that just the angle?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's caused by Die Deterioration. When coins are struck, metal flows outward toward the rim, gradually eroding radial lines in the fields and smearing out the detail of the devices. That's part of what causes the cartwheel luster on coins, but also makes all the features less sharp, or sometimes causing a doubled or shadowed effect. |
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United States
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Ah okay, because yes it looks (to my untrained eye), that's there's almost a shadow edge on the botto of the date numbers and the "In god..."
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Valued Member
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Wow those are great pics. Got it.
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