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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Almost looks like someone tried to anodize or heat treat it? I think it looks authentic but off. The color is weird. Cant tell whats going on with the date, almost looks doubled.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Joe, Yes you are correct on the date, it is a known variety of the 1854 O Half (WB-101, WB1).   |
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I agree about the hazy look on the reverse (like puffed clouds). It's likely the result of the coin being dipped too much. Someone got greedy and messed up perfectly nice coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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OMG, guys! @MikeP, You will never hear the end of it until this coin is in a TPG holder. This is called the pile-on effect. Why does it happen? Because everyone else is saying so and folks view it as an easy, safe bet to boost post count with little risk of looking like a moron. |
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United States
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Something is not right. That reverse color looks rather hazy, almost like it has been dipped many times. Quote:You will never hear the end of it until this coin is in a TPG holder. Exactly. I believe that the coin will get a Details grade. The TPG may think of it as market acceptable, but it's still dipped in my opinion. I want to see it in a TPG holder. Edited by SilverDollar2017
02/08/2018 11:34 am
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Something is not right. That reverse color looks rather hazy, almost like it has been dipped many times.
That's exactly what you're looking at - an overdipped coin which has been retoned. It's a poster child for the effect, one of the better examples I've seen posted in the last 15 years. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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new pics show the same thing the original pictures showed. cleaned and retoned.
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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United States
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Looks to be a cast counterfeit....raised areas in the fields are a dead give away. Toning is suspicious, too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That was my first take smalldawg but it has some definite characteristics for the variety that I doubt would be apparant on a cast.
It could be whizzed.
Plus I just added to my ever important post count!!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks to be a cast counterfeit....raised areas in the fields are a dead give away.  I don't think it's a counterfeit... But it does look like it has been dipped, and maybe the toning is AT. I want to see what a TPG thinks of it. Edited by SilverDollar2017
02/09/2018 11:34 am
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Valued Member
United States
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I can't tell, so is this a fake or not. Looks weird to me?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
824 Posts |
This one graded Unc Details - Cleaned
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Really appreciate that you have come back to update us with the TPG grades. You make this forum so much more valuable with your thoughtful follow up. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Glad you sent it in for grading. Looks like the TPG graded it accurately. I just couldn't see this example straight grading with the lack of luster and the "cleaned" look. Edited by SilverDollar2017
06/16/2018 08:06 am
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