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Valued Member
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This is a coin I'm planning to sell from an inherited collection. How would you grade it? Any descriptors I should include in listing the item? Thanks.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU details cleaned. Not 100% sure about the cleaning.
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 United States
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The worry about cleaning is caused by the darker stuff in the tight areas, particularly the obverse. I agree that cleaning is a possibility but not a certainty. The obverse looks far more worn than the reverse but I suspect much of that is the relative lack of contrast in that image, so a nice AU grade is probably in order.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU details, not sure about a cleaning, may bring $40-50.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To be completely truthful I do not like this dime. At any price.
You may have to take what you can get for it, Phaedrus29, and
concentrate on others which are better examples.
If not cleaned then badly handled.
The strike is weak in my opinion.
Your 1911 Nickel was much better and it should have gone for more.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I think I certainly need to reshoot the obverse, since that side especially looks much better in person and I don't even really see those blue spots on the face for example. Here's a shot of this dime in a foursome, which gives a better idea of how the obverse actually looks I think:  I took this shot because I'm considering selling these four coins together...bit of an odd grouping, but shipping costs are annoying. ;) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like your group of four.
The two halves will carry the cent and dime.
Meanwhile experiment with a reshoot of the dime.
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Valued Member
United States
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I like your group of four. Thanks for the positive feedback...I was unsure of the grouping. The only question is how to list it. I was thinking of putting it in US coins, Collections/Lots. For the title, I currently have "1858 Flying Eagle Cent-1913 Barber Dime-1893 Columbian Half-1935 Walking Liberty", which has no characters left and leaves me no room for descriptors, but has the advantage of including all four coins. Thoughts? |
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Here's another attempt at shooting the front...I think it is much better but still makes the coin look worse than it does in person:  |
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Posted 02/18/2015 4:28 pm
