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Pillar of the Community
Canada
638 Posts |
How would you grade this one? Thanks MG   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1505 Posts |
EF, these suckers are hard to grade.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9871 Posts |
EF
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
21654 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5404 Posts |
AU 50 ........ as usual a lightly struck nickel pretty nice coin !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
898 Posts |
Beautiful coin, I'm in the AU camp, probably 55 though.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
10743 Posts |
The jewels in the crown are flattened, EF-40
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5404 Posts |
Question...............were those Flattened jewels even there, when the coin was struck ?
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Valued Member
United States
214 Posts |
I'd say AU-50 given that we can see all 8 pearls visible in the headband. I too am curious whether all the pearls in the vertical band were actually rounded when minted? Anyone have a strong opinion on this?
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Valued Member
Canada
403 Posts |
Another tough 5c to grade. I agree with AU+. I too question the original mint strike of jewels/pearls. The other high points and beautiful adjacent fields are not consistent with an EF grade. Hard to fault the coin for what appears to be a light/weak strike.
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Valued Member
Canada
414 Posts |
Everyone mentions the jewels, but in relation to the mustache it leads me to belive it's not from wear, it was the strike, I'm at Au55 too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
937 Posts |
Okay ladies and gents put me to school.
Obverse:
Starting at the top;
1.The ball under the cross is flattened. Wear or weak strike?
2.The beads running down from the ball to the top of the central cross device start out mosstly round and by the lowest one are extremly flat and starting to blend into the edge of nearby device. Wear or weak strike?
3.The central cross starts out fairly well defined and fades as you go down with the left hand side beginining to fade away. Wear or Strike?
4. the left hand fleur is weak throughout with the right side merging into the background. Wear or Strike?
5. The band crisp to the front and back with weakness in the center the greatest weakness is the two jewels directly below the weakness noted on the left hand side of the cross and right hand side of the fleur above. wear or strike?
6.The cross at the king's throat is sharp top central and bottom but weak to the left and right arms, the right arm being nearly indidstinct at its edges. Wear or strike?
7. the sash (or whatever it is called) that looks to be made of roses and butterflies. Starts at the right near the bow on the shoulder the devises are not sharp but desernable as you follow the sash they get more and more flat until the rose by the cape's opening is nearly blended into the background. wear or strike?
If you run a straight edge from the center of the topmost cross down the fading beads it runs along an axis of weak devises top to bottom
Reverse:
the central 5 shows flatness and weakness from top to bottom, more so on the bottom. This looks to be along the same axis as the weakness on the obverse.
If the answer to these points is strike weakness than this is a strong AU coin with a shot at low end UNC. If it is all wear....
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Posted 10/19/2014 10:43 am
