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Its in an old ANACS holder. The scratches by the beak on the reverse is on the holder. Your thoughts? This is something I've aquired about 10 years ago.   Thank you I saved the image properly rotated, don't know why its not saving that info. Edited by shatsi
12/03/2021 2:41 pm
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AU58 due to muted luster.
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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AU53 for me. Could see ANACS calling this AU55.
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You don't think it's cleaned?
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There are some wipe marks but they seem limited. Also these coins sometimes get leeway on the cleaned designation. This one doesn't look that bad.
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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You don't think it's cleaned? The coin does not have original skin and my first thought was AU Details cleaned, but a lot of these coins get straight graded as market acceptable. |
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The vast majority of Trade dollars, a dealer once told me, are cleaned. He said 19th century cargo dealers -- mostly Europeans doing business here -- washed their coins as a matter of course. After all, there's no telling where those coins had been. Assuming that to be true, it wouldn't surprise me if the TPGs might apply a different standard, and give a coin like this a straight grade. It's obviously been cleaned, though. For what it is worth, I was a research graduate student in North India in the 1980s. I would amass a significant number of coins from the market over the course of a week. They were often truly filthy, and I would frequently toss them into a pot of water treated with 7% iodine solution. Edited by pristine2
12/05/2021 08:17 am
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