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Coin looks like a nice XF40-XF45 1858 Small Letters Flying Eagle cent. The rim has rim Cuds, extra metal retained on the surface of the coin. There are lots of nicks and hits on the reverse, obverse is somewhat nicer. Market value around $100 to $130 based only on these photos, might get more from a Cud or error collector, but those same Cuds also turn off some collectors as well. The photos are a tad blurry and that makes it hard to accurately grade it. If it looks better in hand, that of course would increase the value. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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  Better pics |
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Much improved. I would say 45, shot at AU50.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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I'll go with VF30 - lots of wear on the breast and neck, rev is nice, but the spot on the 'E' is distracting. I do like the Cud though. Nice coin. |
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I'm at 40. like the sharpness but net grade down because of the holes poked into it. has problems but I say it makes a straight grade.
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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There are no holes, but dark spots, unless I missed something.
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06/10/2017 12:20 pm
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VF-30 with a fair amount of wear. The reverse does have some interesting Cuds around the edge. |
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I like those Rim Cuds. VF-35 |
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There are no holes, but dark spots, unless I missed something. On the obverse, clustered around the tail feathers, I see on poked hole above and four below. On the reverse, I see a poked hole in the E in CENT, in the leaf to the right of the bow of the wreath and at 5 o'clock on the denticles of the rim. The reverse holes could be spots, but they look like they dig into the coin. You would know better than me. Again, relatively minor and unlikely to detail the coin. 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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I like the rim Cuds a lot. Id call it a mid VF so a 30/35. Nice coin!  |
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Posted 06/07/2017 9:11 pm
