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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Almost looks proof or polished. Not sure what to say, will wait for some other opinions.
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Idk might be just the pic. However that being said I found a 71 d and 1973 d like that and looked almost proof. Maybe it was a good year. Mine was definitly not polished but looked almost dcam. I ended putting my in a flip which I never do for coins I found like that.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The hair, the field to the left of JFK's eyes, and the eagle on the reverse seem very weak vs. the surface, especially the shield outline appears to be gone and the clouds are all flat. I'm going with polished. Also has a gouge on the TE in STATES.
Grade? XF40 details, polished, my opinion.
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I can guarantee this coin has not been polished, it has the cartwheels on both Obverse and reverse when you rotate the coin, polished coins don't have that. I agree with a weak strike, There is not a bag mark or scratch in the fields, Paralyse you are correct on the TE in STATE. With that being said, its a heck of a nice looking coin for being 44 years old.
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Not polished ,But plated IMHO. Very odd not to have any marks or scuffs on it.  |
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I would go with heavily polished, the old term "wizzed" comes to mind. This can give a cartwheel effect to a coin and the flow lines near JFK's nose are not radial, but at an odd angle, something that doesn't happen at the mint.
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The reason I'm going with altered-surfaces is that the coin has MS65PL surfaces but XF40 details. Agree w/the hairlines north-south almost from under chin to above LF of face. If this was a really weak strike (it would have to be, given the mushy reverse) I'd expect to see flow lines headed radially (east-west) from the bust like Badger Mint points out, and on all sides, not just the left.
I've got a MS65PL PCGS slab on a 71-D, the surfaces are much the same but the details are far sharper (cloud detail, feathers, the outline around the shield, and hair detail.)
The plating possibility mentioned by T-BOP is very interesting. Perhaps someone very lightly plated it with silver. That might account for the luster and the weird eagle. A jeweler would have to do a surface test to determine if it was silver-plated.
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