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Bedrock of the Community
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This is a recent local coin shop purchase. The whitish gray areas on the coin in the picture are not present on the coin in hand, but some sort of photo artifact. Fully toned, with a faint trace of luster beneath. Coin shop grade on the 2x2 was XF.   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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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obv vf35
rev xf45
net xf40
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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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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though to grade this one due to the milk. its blurring key points on this coin. definitely a weak obverse strike. my dilemma is determining if this coin was circulated and the reverse wreath is milked out in the key areas. too me it looks lightly circulated based on these pics so i'll go with AU55.
is there any way you can get any better pics on this?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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I got tired of the bad pictures even with my decent camera and I think I tossed the offending source now: the allegedly-60W "Daylight" ugly brown-hued CFL is gone and replaced with an interrogation-room bright white 100W incandescent bulb. Also got rid of the glass dome thing (it's a single bulb ceiling fan light.) Those CFL lights might be better for the environment, but they're ruining my pictures. I had been trying to offset it with my direct lighting, but that was just overexposing all of the photos.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Okay. Working with the new light, I took raw photos at 24MP using my 35MM lens and neutral balance. I then imported to Photoshop, cropped and pasted onto a black background, with no additional processing, and this is the result. Now I'm really confused. The rim is very weak on the obverse at D STA and directly across from that on the reverse the rim is missing and has weak or no dentition; I've seen that error before but forget the technical term for it, I don't think it's a clip. The strange, whitish gray areas on the coin are directly across from the weak rim area on the obverse and located directly AT the weak rim area on the reverse. Under a 10x loupe, the rims directly opposite the areas with weak or missing denticles appear to be pushed OUT a little bit, heading AWAY from the weak areas. You tell me, my knowledge of error coins is minimal at best. Also found out that the last 6 has been repunched or recut.   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 Edited by paralyse
03/11/2017 8:10 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU-53, looks like a recut6. a lot easier to see in hand I am sure.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I thought it looked AU in hand compared to my slabbed AU examples so it's nice to see a bit of support!
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based on the fact that the discoloration is in fact on the coin and the new pics. technically it should grade low AU but value may be compromised a little due to it. probably XF money would be about right
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Bedrock of the Community
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I paid $18 for it, so I think XF or AU are both ok.
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Posted 03/11/2017 1:45 pm
