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What are your thoughts on this one. This is a fairly rare VAM-13B Far Date, Crumbled Stars. Stars to the left of the date are a mess. Lightly struck at the center of the coin is the norm for the New Orleans mint - not their best work (or their worst, 1891).   |
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the 89(O)'s are right in the middle of when they had strike issues at the N.O. mint. so the ear and breast areas are very common for this year.
the surfaces may be SMPL so they may show more marks than normal in the fields. a plethera of marks and scuffs on both sides, broken luster, stains and discoloration. there are too many indicators that the coin has seen circulation.
AU55 or MS62
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Looks like an AU-58 slider.
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I am going to say low MS.
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I'm at low MS. MS-62.
Errers and Varietys.
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Really beautiful example of a tough VAM. I may be misreading this one, but there appears to be enough surface disruption in the fields and high points of the coin to call this a slider. There is very little wear, and the remaining luster is fantastic. The toning suggests an old album coin. I'd tentatively call it AU-58. If only New Orleans had struck the coins well and handled them with the care they took basining the dies . . .
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Seeing your past posts with CACG, I'll go out on a limb and say they slabbed it as AU-55, personally I'd say 62
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This one graded CACG AU Details. I am not surprised by this one, though I was hoping for a straight grade. It has lots of luster, but apparently was cleaned. I was never sure if it was AU or MS either. Still a rare VAM.  |
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Ouch. I was off on this one.  |
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Your slab photo shows what they may have focused on regarding a cleaning. The area around the upper lip, the area immediately SE of the eye, and possibly the field just below "US" of PLURIBUS look like there could have been some verdigris removed. There are also some fine vertical lines up the center of the obverse, roughly from just above the large bear claw to the hair just left of the first cotton blossom. There's a more plausible case for this one being cleaned than your 1898-O. Regardless, that's a very nice VAM-13B. I'd grab this one all day every day for that VAM. It's a strong slider. Was this a cherry-pick? |
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the area above the lip and near the eye would be very difficult to catch however, the area under US really stands out when you blow up the photo as something happened there. its something that I should have caught but didnt until FC called it out. I had thought it was just from circulation or from a bag hit.
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Was this a cherry-pick? Yes, purchased for slightly over spot 2 years ago. |
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Yes, purchased for slightly over spot 2 years ago.  |
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Yes, purchased for slightly over spot 2 years ago.  YOWZA! In cherry-pick ball, that's a walk-off game winner. The only 13B I've ever found was an ugly VF-ish details coin that looked like Miss Williams and the eagle had a sword fight that both lost, badly. |
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