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I generally only give regular coins a passing glance. I have a very small obsession with one particular series and it tends to encompass about 150% of my coin time. This year Santa has started to open my eyes to another series. It helps that its the same guy designing both. I have been home for a little over two weeks and every day I have pulled this out and looked at it. I think I have the attribution but grade? I just don't have any experience in this series. I assume its plagued by all the same problems coins of this era have. So I think maybe vf20. Would you care to take a look and let me know the real grade and maybe confirm my thoughts on attribution?    |
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I'm not an expert, but it looks better than VF20 to me. The shield has a lot of detail. Is that a die crack?
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I'm not an expert by any means on this series but I'm certain it's better than Vf-20. The details in the shield and leaves are consistent with XF-45 IMO and the details in the stars are VF-35. I'd say a net XF-40. Interested to see how the experts see it. Nice coin with nice die crack and RPD. Marty
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Very nice! All the elements I like. RPD, killer crack(s) & fully legible. I'd say it's a safe XF40.
Edited by fioti
02/02/2013 10:56 am
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 Man that's a nice one. Coin's like this is why I go nuts over coins. I think it's XF-45. |
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excellent die cracks along the obverse my first venture into coins was this series and I managed to get VF/XF on a half dozen dates I'm no expert but i'd say this is choice VF |
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I'd venture this is an EF45 looks pretty nice actually. Love the RPD and die cracks.
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Ooooh, nice character on the Shield nickel! Die Cracks and RPD!  I would go along with XF40 based upon the light wear on the leaves on the obverse and the seperation on the rim/denticles on the reverse. Edited by oih82w8
02/04/2013 08:35 am
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United States
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The Mark on the shield itself, is that a bag Mark or a die crack? Beautiful coin. I would say in the xf range easy. There is a whole lot of detail in that coin.
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The Mark on the shield itself, is that a bag Mark or a die crack? Beautiful coin. I would say in the xf range easy. There is a whole lot of detail in that coin.
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Hey, that one looks familiar  I had it graded as VF35, a little bit too much weakness in the vertical bars for full EF. |
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