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Pillar of the Community
United States
3479 Posts |
Same drill as always. Thoughts on grade, surface, eye appeal...yada yada yada. Thanks guys!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11896 Posts |
Nice historic date: end of civil war, Lincoln assassination, yadda, yadda. AU50. This will put a dent in your wallet.  Some stabbing pock marks. 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
05/08/2017 9:15 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
Nice bones, probably an EF40 or better but many tiny hits and terminal stage toning. Glass half full response is it's not recently cleaned.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3210 Posts |
Au53. Not sure if it was cleaned and retoned. Too dark for my taste
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Looks AU-53 to me. Cleaned nicely retoned.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
824 Posts |
AU-50, maybe AU-53, too bad for the scratch on the shield.
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Pillar of the Community
7234 Posts |
A grade as with all those nicks and dings obviously retoned dark to hide them in pictures is hard to actually tell. With your pictures probably AU53 details. Would have to see it in hand to be accurate.
Edited by Mark1959
05/08/2017 11:04 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
I'd guess AU50 and I'm not sure about the re-toning but on a subjective note: I'm all for toned silver but this type of black patina is not what I would look for. I've owned a couple pieces like this and the in-hand eye appeal just isn't there (usually).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1660 Posts |
Slides into AU-50, details due to environmental damage, dipped and retoned.
I wouldn't buy it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
EF-45. IMO, can't be AU without luster. The reverse indicates an old cleaning.
Edited by TypeCoin971793
05/09/2017 08:38 am
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18673 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7621 Posts |
If I sent it in it would grade XF 45 details due to an old cleaning.
If it was sent in by one of the big auction houses it would straight grade AU50 all day long!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1959 Posts |
What western sky said. No doubt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
AU-53 sharpness, market acceptable.
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Posted 05/08/2017 9:12 pm
