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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree - Looks like a great buy, but show us some larger pics please!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Roger that - Will take some better ones and post them soon.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Solid 55. Lack of any toning does not necessarily mean cleaned or dipped and this one doesn't appear to have suffered from either.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Reverse fields look to have extensive parallel scratches. Looks like it was wiped. I'm on the borderline between au58 and Au details cleaned/scratched.
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU. Might have been cleaned or dipped. Better pics, please.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1788 Posts |
Nah, the scratches on the reverse are a combination of my subpar photography skills and meh lighting. In hand there's no scratches. I gotta get better lamps  As requested here's some larger pics   |
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United States
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Very pretty. If anyone ever says your coins have hairlines, just tell them those are flow lines.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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AU-58 , not sure about those scratches that I'm seeing .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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flow lines radiate out to the rims. they don't swirl around the coin like they do in this example. despite the light shining more directly on the coin, I can still see the scratches. also something weird going on around the designer's initial on the obverse.
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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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah, makes AU58 in my book.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's close between au55/58
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like the reverse more than the obverse because of the scratches in the wall below trust (near the bottom). The knee, shield and breast have very slight rubs, but should still make AU. Those scratches are my only concern.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU-55. Those hairlines are definitely not flow lines. It may have been cleaned in the past.
Edited by SilverDollar2017
02/13/2018 10:09 am
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