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10/17/2017 9:51 pm
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I will probably enjoy it for a couple months and then be forced to sell it. That makes no sense to me at all ... then why did you purchase it? Perhaps at a bargain price ... then hope to flip for a profit. Good work indeed if you can get that done. To the grade question ... no expertise at all in this series ... but its obviously a well preserved example with to my eye a hint of circulation wear. I'm going AU55 ... appears to be in an older PCGS holder. Lovely coin ... wish you can somehow keep it. David |
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That makes no sense to me at all ... then why did you purchase it? Right now, I can't afford to keep any coins over $100. But I can recycle some of my coin-flipping money and buy a nice coin to keep for a while and sell later on, and maybe make a few bucks in the process. It started with an MS-62 1867 Shield nickel with rays, which I sold and got a bust dollar, which led to an AU-55 1827 half dollar, which led to a toned AU-55 1832 half dollar, which led to this coin. While it may seem weird, it quenches the need to buy a high-dollar coin for a month or two without committing extra cash. Doing this has let me own several very nice coins that I would have otherwise not owned owned until several years down the road. |
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58...how much did you pick it up for?
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au53-55. stars all look flat as well as half the talons and arrowheads. surprising contrast between well struck areas and flat strike portions.
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.comEdited by numismatic student
10/18/2017 01:37 am
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Beautiful piece. I could see a market grade of 58. It looks 53 or 55 technically.
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au53-55. stars all look flat as well as half the talons and arrowheads. surprising contrast between well struck areas and flat strike portions. That is characteristic for the variety. Try to find an O-112 with fully-struck stars. From what I read, this obverse die was an experimental transition for trying to get a better strike in the center of the coins. |
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how much did you pick it up for? $400, and I think she is worth every cent. She has full cartwheel luster and you almost need a magnifier to see wear. |
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Excellent example of the variety. Strike has no bearing on a technical grade and I'd give this a 55 for that. Market acceptable at 58 because of the attractive eye appeal.
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Gorgeous coin brocephus !
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Thanks for your response. There are many Au and Ms CBHDs. Why choose a variety that is always weakly struck? At $400 it doesn't seem like this variety has much of a premium. Why not choose an example in a variety with a full strike? They seem to be readily available.
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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As it's a weak variety, maybe it even made a low MS? MS-62?
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Looks at least AU-58 to me. Nice!
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