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Moderator
 United States
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I'm sure in hand its a beauty. The fields look super.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
817 Posts |
Thanks for the replies all. I'm using the usb microscope from Coin World, the focus is tough with it. I'm going to have to break down and buy a nice camera and lens. It is as flawless as it looks and unbelievable in hand. I am pretty sure it has original surfaces.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Las Vegas,
If you can adjust the intensity of the light coming from the microscope, that would greatly reduce the glare and enhance the coin images.
I just bought a Canon digital camera, still testing it, at least is better than the broken Kodak digital camera I had for many years.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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my first thought was MS66-FSB.
Hard to tell north of that without high res photos.
Gorgeous coin!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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It is nice to see a FB Mercury that is ALSO very well struck up on the obverse.
From my experience, there ain't many of 'em!
I have a toned 1919 FB, but this has an obviously better struck obverse than mine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
817 Posts |
Thanks for the replies. I just sent it off to PCGS. I'll let you how it turns out.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1704 Posts |
Very nice coin and it should come back higher than MS-65 with an FSB designation. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1304 Posts |
If I'm grading off posted photo's I will try to stay at MS-65,66. This is a nice coin.
MS-67FB
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1415 Posts |
As noted by the others, taking a picture of the coin is extremely hard, as seen by my pics which are not nearly as good as yours. I would imagine around MS-67 FB. Please post the results from PCGS when returned. Definitely worth a banana. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
817 Posts |
So PCGS let me know they received my coin. When I get the graded coin back should I post it here or create a new thread. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think it will probably come back MS-65-66 and not sure about the FSB because PCGS is a stick in the mud about those things but it is possible. I am not comfortable grading it above 66 from these photos. I have some 66-67FSB's that the strike looks stronger or at least less Die Deterioration than this coin shows |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4989 Posts |
Looks to be at least MS-66
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Pillar of the Community
United States
817 Posts |
PCGS came gave it a grade of MS65FB.
I think that is about two grades low but who would not.
I'll post a pic when it comes back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5833 Posts |
Sorry to see it came back with that grade, microscope photos are tougher to grade, it blows out the field of the actual coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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thats what I thought it would come back as
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