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WHat would you grade this?   |
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if real 55.
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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WHat do you mean if real? Does that mean AU55?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AU53 details, cleaned - most likely extremely overdipped which stripped all of the luster. The extreme roughness of the face and fields suggest possible mechanical cleaning as well.
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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Is this a Chapman or Zebra strike variety?
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No, not a Chapman or Zerbe. It is also not a zebra.
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AU-55 details (cleaned).  to the CCF! |
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Can I just ask what it means when you say details and cleaned? Also does that affect the value?
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Cleaned means that someone has used a chemical or mechanical method to alter the coin's surfaces - silver/copper polish, "dip", jewelry cleaner, emery/cloth/scotch-brite pads, fine steel wool, those are just a few of the methods.
Cleaning a coin in most, but not all, cases substantially reduces its value.
A details coin is named because something about the coin prevents it from getting a full grade. Cleaning, damage, holes, scratches/graffiti, bends, gouges, corrosion, and many other things can affect the surfaces of a coin - when this happens a third-party grading company will assign a DETAILS grade, qualifying the nature of the injury to the coin. Again, in most, but not all, cases, a details grade reduces the value of a coin.
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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I'm not so sure this one has been cleaned. You will get varying opinions because we are trying to judge based off of a photo. Judging a coin is much easier done in-hand. But it's definitely an AU coin. Do you see the rub on the wreath?
Edited by MikeF
07/06/2017 11:36 pm
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I agree with MikeF, does not look cleaned to me. Looks like this may have been kept for many years in a leather coin purse or envelope containing a high amount of sulfur in the paper.
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Posted 07/05/2017 9:00 pm
