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Bedrock of the Community
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AU-58 with nice luster and toning.
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Really impossible to say without coin in hand to look for luster breaks. Chatter could just be bag marks on an MS coin.
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Is there such a grade as AU-59? AU-58. Very nice.
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Obverse shows friction in the fields and on Liberty's cheek and jaw. The LI in LIBERTY is very weak; possible filled die or damage? The coin is too high-grade to have lost LI to circulation wear.
Reverse is very close to mint state but the obverse holds it back to AU-55 IMO.
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Hard, but I will say AU 58.
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i dont see any problems. AU58
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This was how this coin was described and offered for $100. Will have it in hand later this week and I'll see if it looks like the seller's pictures. Will post pics when in hand.  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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after taking a second look closer at this coin you can see the obverse scratches under the toning which could be from an old cleaning but also could be from just contact with other coins, however, if you look closely at the ones in front of the bust they are long and curve completely around the face. normal contact with other coins would not result in these types of fine scratches and since they are on the field I would expect to see similar contact scratches on more prominent devices like the cap and crown which are not present. the coin would probably grade with the a details designation.
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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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