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1903 Indian Head Cent

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 Posted 04/13/2017  01:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alan to your friends list
Hard to tell if the pics are showing true colour, if so I would say it might have altered surfaces, if not high ms, maybe 63-64 imo.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  02:13 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
I think it's upper MS but, those images have severely overblown highlights that actually make some of the fields look white.

I don't think it's questionable color, just questionable photography.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  02:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add indian_hoarder to your friends list
Photography does make it look off, but I fear the large quantity of flyspecks may be a sign of a cleaning.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  06:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SHAFTA9a to your friends list
As noted, color looks 'funny', but could be mid mint state
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 Posted 04/13/2017  07:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Hard to tell color from your photos . There's an area on obverse ( lower band of liberty )that looks flat to me . Not wear ,probably a dab of grease . MS-63 .
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 Posted 04/13/2017  09:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list
might make MS64 but pics have way too much reflective light to determine color or other surface issues.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  4:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
If the pic is accurate, don't like the color at all.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Eric19 to your friends list
MS 64 RB. Picture is a bit overexposed so its hard to determine color, but I don't think its a full red.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  5:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
I'll pass on trying to grade this from these pics. No way this is a natural color.
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 Posted 04/13/2017  11:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list
Yeah, these pictures make it quite difficult to determine what colour it would be. If I had to guess (and it would be only a guess), I would say RB.
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 Posted 04/14/2017  8:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
I paid $84 postpaid for this one. Thanks for your thoughts.

1903-Indian-Head-Cent

Interestingly, heritage sold this same coin for $149.50 in January of 2006. Pics were from the heritage auction 11 years ago. Don't know if it will look different now.

1903-Indian-Head-Cent
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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 Posted 04/14/2017  8:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Congrats. Obviously your pics on this thread were well off the mark.
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 Posted 04/14/2017  8:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
Yeah, the posting for my purchase only had tiny pics in slab so I used the heritage pics from 2006. I will update pics when I get it next week. Thanks.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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 Posted 04/15/2017  11:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
Got this in hand today. Snapped some picks and would appreciate your thoughts based on these. I think this coin was graded and holdered more than 11 years ago. Thanks.

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1903-Indian-Head-Cent
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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 Posted 04/16/2017  12:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Illegaltender to your friends list
Ms-63 rd? Pics are a little fuzzy to grade off of.
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