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Pillar of the Community
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Great eye appeal in my opinion.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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United States
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I'm gonna go down from XF-40 because of the wear on the "C" on the obverse. VF-30
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I'm discounting the C wear as the higher devices are not showing more wear. it would not make sense that just the C would show that much and nothing else. I grade this one EF40. nice!
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 United States
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Tough call because of the very old reverse die; details which ought to be there for the grade might have worn away on the die itself. I think that's the reason for the "C," which I've seen before. This is the second use of the reverse, which was also used for the 1829 O-104.
I can say this with confidence because of the slam-dunk attribution pickup of the first two A's being filled, making this plainly O-106. It'd otherwise be a very difficult attribution because of the tilted images.
Factoring the relatively-fresh obverse, I have this at VF35. I don't_quite_see enough of the clasp to call it XF. Connor, if the oval line inside the clasp is, in fact, all there, call it XF40.
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Pillar of the Community
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So ...I have some vf's with a few possible xf's...Is this worth sending in to get graded?
SsuperDdave...I am going to take a closer look and see if I can get a better picture of the oval line inside of clasp. Thanks for the history lesson on the wear of the "C". Makes perfect sense.
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So ...I have some vf's with a few possible xf's...Is this worth sending in to get graded?
I'd say no for this one - the possibility remains that the gouges might get it a Details grade, or they might panic and call the surfaces non-original. It's of borderline value to begin with. Still a pretty coin - those gouges don't drag the eye. |
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Nice XF-40 IMO. I would be a bit concerned with the gouges as well but overall it is a nice coin!
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