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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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It's clashed in the shield. This coin is clashed all over the place .
You can see part of the 8 of the date under the e of states even.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Man this is the crispiest, crunchiest, most crusty coin! Choice AU-58.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Essentially no wear but lack of luster indicates it's seen a bit of circulation.
The uniform gray color might be from retoning after an old dip; if so the result is very attractive and there is no sign of abrasive cleaning.
NGC AU-58 seems possible.
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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll buck the crowd and say MS-62.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1094 Posts |
I think it has some wear, AU58. Beautiful.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Beautiful coin! Excited to see what NGC called it. I lean towards the AU-58 camp
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This one is AU-58
I should have it back Saturday
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice call everyone but me!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice call everyone but me! we forgive you Quote:
I should have it back Saturday why? did you expect the coin to be MS? what makes the coin different than when you purchased it as the photos are pretty good to show what the actual coin looks like? |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's clashed in the shield. Die clashing happens when two dies strike one another without a planchet in between. The fields are the highest point on the dies (the reverse of what you find on coins) and the edges of the carved-in design make an impression, usually on the surface of the other die's fields. That makes sense in the raised line we see under STATES OF in the reverse. But it doesn't seem like two dies clashing together would affect the eagle's shield which is fairly high in the reverse design on the coin and therefore, fairly deep inside the scooped out reverse design in the die. What may make more sense is if there was some debris, harder than silver, that was sandwiched between the die and the planchet that damaged the reverse die's scooped out design in the area of the shield. The globs on the shield (one larger and one smaller) seem raised which would be consistent with debris earlier having pushed into the design of the shield in the reverse die damaging it. 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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United States
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I actually thought it would come back AU-55 due to the luster
The detail of the coin itself in hand could be either AU-58 or MS-61/62 if I recall correctly
Yes the shield could be debris
I didn't really notice it till after I sent it and was looking at a photo. I had thought it was libertys legs but I am unsure. I'll look good when it's here.
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Posted 12/06/2023 01:47 am
