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Thank you for your kind comments y'all.
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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Late to the party because I've been busy with other things. What a stunning coin! I've seen a lot of 1916 LWH over the years, and I can't recall seeing one that well struck at that high a grade. I tend to be conservative on grading, but my first reaction here was MS-67. After I saw the PCGS grade, I looked again, and I'm still at MS-67. Yikes, what a coin.
EDIT: Liberty's right heel would clash near the lone raised top inner left wing feather (our visual right), in the space just below the "R" in AMERICA. That feather may be part of the curl at the heel, but the gouge from the "R" in TRUST looks a die polishing gouge.
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10/28/2026 1:55 pm
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Regarding the anomalies noted on your example and shown in your detailed photo above, and comparing to the image of the toned 67+ example, my guess is that your coin exhibits remnants of a die clash in a later die state. The raised areas line up well with clashing from the reverse wing edge. I captured a detail from the image you posted above for comparison.  "Nummi rari mira sunt si sumptus." - Filius Scotiae
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Gorgeous coin !
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Thank you for your kind comments. Another MS67 CAC coin is coming up for sale from the Mack Chase collection. I still think this coin is inferior to the lower graded subject coin in this thread, particularly where the sun is. Why is it so dark and why does the surface of the sun look impaired?  PCGS MS67 CAC below:  Does the surface of the sun look impaired? At the very least, does this surface in this area merit a suprb gem grade designation?  Compare to the sun in the obverse of the MS66 subject coin of this thread below.  Images of the MS67 CAC coin resume below.   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
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NS,  your coin is superior to the 67 you posted and add the bean on top of that. it shows the inconsistencies in grading standards even within the same TPG for the same series and the same year coin. coins at this level, due to the rarity, should really be compared to like coins at the grade they are assigning (IMO). All this does is add another level of skepticism in sending coins in at the rates they are charging today. notice all marks around the motto on the comparable coin similar to yours. after some research I found the following: For 1916 Walking Liberty half dollars, die flaws or surface interruptions around the motto are documented as possible mint errors, but they are not a common or officially cataloged variety. |
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