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Pillar of the Community
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PR 53, another beautiful seated half.
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Rest in Peace
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PR-55, or unc details cleaned
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Great coin Moe! PR53 would be my guess.
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What about Labradors in Afghanistan? Oh, the coin. Unless you are trying to trick us with the mirrors, I would say PR-55. :-)
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I'm going with AU55 but my wife was looking over my shoulder and says MS.
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MS61-62, and likely a business strike with prooflike surfaces. A dandy for sure.
Chance
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I would definitely be handling that with gloves though.  (Particularly since shiny surfaces get fingerprints (and they're on there forever!) very easily. (In my defense, I started with gloves on but got frustrated with holding the coin and the camera and the auto-focus not showing the coin's reflection. But point taken! Please, everyone, learn from me!)) I was actually very surprised at how shiny the coin's fields were when I received this one. It came ungraded (but I will offer an opinion after you all do). Edited by Moe145
11/08/2011 12:32 am
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I'm going AU-58 PL surfaces (partially based on your last sentence :) )
Great coin!
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Man, the Mint was hitting on all cylinders in the 1890's. I'm not going to hazard a grade, but intuition makes me think it's a Business Strike. Value-wise, they're about on par with similarly-graded Proofs from that year; this is not a cheap coin.
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I appear to have lust in my heart for that coin.  |
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FYI: this coin was described on Brian Greer Rare Coins, where I bought it, as AU with a "possible old dip". I've found his descriptions to be very fair and usually undergraded (if they're not right on). Which is good, since he has very few pictures (which is unnerving when you're spending some cash on rare coins!) Like I said before, I was very surprised at the PL fields. But I still think this coin is a business strike, and I would give it AU-55. I'm happy with it!    |
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Posted 11/07/2011 7:41 pm
