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Pillar of the Community
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The 79-O looks 63. The gouge in the neck kinda sucks but goes with the territory.
On the 12-S you can tell it is ex-jewelry by the sunken area around the rim on both sides. As gold is very soft the bezel leaves it's "fingerprint" on the coin that way. It will grade AU details ex-jewelry.
Both are still nice coins though and I wouldn't be ashamed of either one of them!
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Rest in Peace
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I agree with MS-63 on the Morgan but it nearly smells cleaned. The obverse, in particular, looks like some luster is gone from a dip. It's almost impossible to tell for sure from photos only. Rotating in under light would answer that question.
Gold is so soft that it almost always suffers when bezeled. It's still a lovely 53 but would detail from the rim damage.
I still like both of these. No shame for either of them.
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63 for morgan.
I'm not one to opine on gold.
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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63 and 58 details (ex-jewelry).
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1) It looks like it could make MS-64.
2) AU-55, quite possibly Details.
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'79 O: Because of the heavy dings on the obverse, MS62; it would be an easy MS64 otherwise.
The $5 gold Indian:
I agree with Joseph7420.
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Pillar of the Community
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MS-63 on the Morgan, AU details on the gold (although very attractive).
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Well got results from my dealer
1879 O ms63 max
1912 S ms62. He very certain that this coin will straight grade like 80% certain
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