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Bedrock of the Community
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And you'd make a terrible mystery story writer. Please, if you want a grade, just ask for it.  |
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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 |
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Please, if you want a grade, just ask for it. The point was to draw attention to the graffiti on the reverse, which apparently eluded you. Edited by pristine2
08/31/2023 8:06 pm
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I'm having trouble seeing graffiti (old man eyes strike again)
The coin is at least MS64 otherwise, not hard to get it to 65 but it has a few light scattered marks on the obverse and a couple tiny reverse marks. not counting the so-called "graffiti." Dies had some wear (you can see the flowlining) but the luster is that typical frosty white Denver luster.
As to the Rosenbergs, the government's strategy at the time of the grand jury and the trial was to ask for the imposition of the death penalty for both husband and wife, on the theory that Julius would confess as to the the true extent and scope of his (and others such as his sister-in-law Ruth and Ruth's husband David) espionage activities if it would spare Ethel from death. Neither husband nor wife would admit guilt or give an inch, and they were both put to death by electric chair. The cruelty of Ethel's electrocution (she was lethally shocked three times before death was achieved and some of the eyewitnesses reported that after the third and final attempt her body was visibly smoking) is sometimes considered one of the spectacles that helped build growing public opposition to the electric chair as a means of execution.
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I see a reeding contact squiggle and a couple other hits, definitely not graffiti. Some of your thread titles are a bit too much like click bait but they're entertaining. Tying this to the Rosenbergs was a stretch although I admire your creativity. I give the story AU58.
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Come now, those are clearly letters and numbers deliberately imprinted on the reverse mound. The tail end of the line is more questionable, but the first five inscripted read "150TTF5" The end 5 could be an "S". These aren't shapes that could randomly appear in linear sequence.  Also, for me anyway, coin collecting is intimately connected with history. I reserve an absolute right to write down any imaginative musings that come to mind. Edited by pristine2
09/01/2023 08:39 am
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Please.  Edited by Coinfrog
09/01/2023 10:46 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I'll guess ms64
I've been collecting for a couple years... Favorite Coin's are Standing Liberty quarters, Working on my type set | Coffee, Corvettes, Coins & the CCF what could be better? |
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Agreed. No graffiti. Just an unrestrained imagination
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Frankly, I find your historical musings entertaining, if possibly a bit far fetched. I, too, like to imagine where an old coin may have been. I can't look at any 1836 and not think about the Alamo, or any 1865 and not think of Ford's Theater. Just gave a friend a 1901 Indian and mentioned that McKinley was killed that year and TR took over the White House. It's a big part of the hobby to me. IMHO, keep on imagining!  Edited by Blastenpene4
09/02/2023 10:14 am
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I originally thought it was going to be a spy coin but it turned out to be a bit bonkers instead.
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