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Bedrock of the Community
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This ranks up there with Cascade's MS 1909-S VDB as one of the best finds of the year.
I haven't looked but I will guess AU50.
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Based on no more than the usual research, I have it at 40 but 45 is probably acceptable. I don't think there are ten examples known in higher grade. What a find. Cherrypick of the Year, by a wide margin.
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Canada
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I would think AU-50. Fantastic find!
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United States
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Looks so much better than the toning pics. i'll say au53 based on new pics.
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." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Wow. Best steal I have heard about in recent memory! Congrats. Looks AU from those pics
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This ranks up there with Cascade's MS 1909-S VDB as one of the best finds of the year. Don't forget X2AN's gold find on the Sunday market. |
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What did you pay for this? I was not aware this was a cherrypick of some sort.
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I was not aware this was a cherrypick of some sort. This one is absolutely rarer, and likely more valuable, than the 1909VDB MPL Cascade was involved with earlier this year. There are more 1909VDB's in PR66RB alone than there are examples of this issue at grade or higher. It is, in my opinion, the most important find in numismatics this year. |
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I'll be away this weekend so I'm posting the results a bit early. Some guessed it right on target! And I thought it would come back XF-45 or AU datails cleaned. Thanks for all the comments!  |
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Nailed it. Love the coin. Congrats.
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I didn't want to spoil the reveal, but it was with knowledge of the true grade (which I got wrong  ) that I mentioned the importance of this find. Allowing for resubmissions, I believe there may be 5 or 6 total extant in higher grade and this coin should command $50,000 at the right auction. It's big. |
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