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How would you grade this one:  This is the same coin with different lighting angles:   Thanks for looking! |
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XF-45 with nice eye appeal!  |
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 I'm at EF45 on this one. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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I'm not sure how the experts here have not tagged this as an AU grade. Granted the patina is nice and thick but AU dimes do not necessarily have to display clean bright mirrors to be designated as so, no? Is that the reason for the EF45 designation being applied here?
I do not see wear to a point that this dime is an EF specimen. I see an AU50 here and if not for that hit on the mirror to the (my) right of Liberty's head, this coin would probably go AU53.
As best I can tell, in my opinion, this is probably an A-1/F-101 using the date measurement and reverse die cracks along the bottom of the wreath to the right hand side and between the ribbon ends as diagnostic points. Fortin's plate coin and assessment display die cracks to the left wreath but Awash had claimed a specimen that showed a complete crack around the reverse and through the ribbon ends. I believe your coin to be a mid-stage degradation of Reverse A.
Nice dime sir
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I think this is a 45, but can see 50 as a possibility also as dsfreeworld has said. A fence sitter IMO.
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I really don't see this one any worse than AU50. Love the look.
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XF-45. It has a nice circulated look that I love about XF coins. |
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First thought was AU50. Not enough luster peaking through to go 53. Still a nice example
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I'm not sure how the experts here have not tagged this as an AU grade. Granted the patina is nice and thick but AU dimes do not necessarily have to display clean bright mirrors to be designated as so, no? Is that the reason for the EF45 designation being applied here?
I think you are correct after looking at it some more. |
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Thanks for the grades on this coin. I am also on the XF45/AU50 fence. I may go to AU50 for the eye appeal.
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