Have to say I was stunned when I unpacked this one. The luster was booming, there was a little chatter on the lower jaw but nothing too distracting, but the toning. Brown with blue on the stars, date and obverse legend and green along the rims. The video doesn't do it justice imho. Thoughts? Thanks!
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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
How can a PCI holder be smart enough to tone just one side of the coin? It appears to me, the toning is from some sort of album holder (like my old Whitman) since toning is even, only on obverse.
I retook some pictures because, why not? R looks ok to me I think. I think it was flashback and my unsteady hand causing the blurriness.
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
Quote: How can a PCI holder be smart enough to tone just one side of the coin?
Go on HiBid and search Florida - you will find auction after auction of newer "PCI graded" silver dollars with extreme obverse only toning. So maybe it is not the holder but done before being "graded."
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