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Yeah, that is a very nicely detailed coin. The tail, the tufts of grass, the ruff are all really well defined. That's a beauty, thq!
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My interest comes from looking at the old Buffalos my grandpa filled his Whitman book with in the 1940's and 1950's. Mostly G-VG pulled from circulation. Looking at those well worn Buffalos made me want a few that looked as good as possible. The ones from the 1930's look pretty good though not too well struck, and there is a 1913 Type 2 which is nice. He probably bought that one from a coin dealer, because the other pre 1920's are sparse and very heavily worn.
Here's a quote from a recent Beymer price sheet that expresses my interest:
Do you want a full horn on VF20? we do, a strong horn on EF 40? we do..PCGS and NGC dont.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/31/2023 11:17 am
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since you mentioned the 13's and the 30's as better struck, thats true they were so its going to be a lot easier finding these in higher grades and pretty well struck especially for early die states(EDS). the 36-38 are easily found in MS66 especially the 38's
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The mill run raw 1936-38 uncs are not as nicely detailed as the raw 1913-1916 uncs. Maybe because there are so many of them, mostly struck on old dies. The 1936 and 1937 proofs are just as stunning as the early proofs, so it's not a matter of design changes.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/01/2023 1:41 pm
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Here's an ANACS MS63 with the strongest circulation strike I've been able to find. The fur on the mantle and left foreleg are fully struck.   "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/04/2023 08:00 am
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a beauty  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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Here's an ANACS MS63 with the strongest circulation strike I've been able to find. The fur on the mantle and left foreleg is fully struck. That's a beauty thq. Very nice. Errers and Varietys.
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thq, you've got some real gems in your collection. How long did it take to assemble all these coins? Must have been a while, although it definitely seems to have been worth the effort.
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Glad you like them Brandmeister. This took about two months on ebay, looking at hundreds of listings. I got raw ones for grandpa's old Whitman book and slabbed ones just to look at. The 1921 Peace project took several years of on-and-off hunting. The Buffs are far easier to find well struck. I'd like to have a proof, but it would cost 10x what that 1915 did. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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thq, these are some real beauties! I looked at a bunch of MS64s on ebay, and none of them were as well-struck as yours. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Here's an ANACS MS63 this coin is much better than a 63. i'd say its darn close to 65. anacs messed up on this one imo. do you own this one? |
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Yes I own it. I found that it sold two months ago for 60% of what I paid. Now it's a keeper. The proofs look a little better but this was the best circulation strike I could find, even at MS65 and 66. I wonder if it might be a proof.
It shows what's out there.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/04/2023 4:42 pm
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I'm not proof expert at all but I don't think the rims look right for a proof
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Looking at MS67's, a lot of them have a strike like this. Below that not so many.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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