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Pillar of the Community
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XF-45 is what I would grade it. It's hard to tell wear vs. strike but the eagles talons look like wear.
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Rest in Peace
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AU-50, just barely. Exceptional gorgeous bullseye tone.
I really love this example.
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Bedrock of the Community
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No doubt a beautiful coin, but no way this makes AU with that hair and right (facing) breast. Side bets welcome.
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I'm still at AU, you can't beat me down Frog.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm with the EF-45 camp.
But there's a good chance this will grade AU-50.
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C'mon, just focus on the completely worn hairline, bust, and leading arm and knee. Not enough meat on this bone for AU. If OP submits, I'm taking bets.
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Im at ef45. Get it slabbed. Beautiful coin
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C'mon, just focus on the completely worn hairline, bust, and leading arm and knee. Not enough meat on this bone for AU. If OP submits, I'm taking bets.
Unless something more than "wear" is involved, it only circulated on one face then, 'cause the reverse sure as heck isn't 45.  I've never fully ascribed to the platitude "always grade by the lower face," because I feel it an intellectual copout. Indeed, when the disparity in apparent grade is large enough, when contemplating grade as a comparison to what the coin looked like the day it left the Mint one might be better-served by grading the better face and then trying to figure out why the opposite face didn't fare as well. How might you explain how one face of this coin received notably more wear than the other? |
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I agree with the Frog. Personally I thought it was between XF-40 and 45 but everyone was saying "AU, AU" so I went with the higher of the two. On the reverse, there is wear on the left talons, left wing, far right leaves. Obverse as Frog identified.
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