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Your thoughts on this one...Thanks again!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I didn't like the scratches on the obverse. Seller has a better one dated 1837 for $1,800. I would skip this one and buy the 1837. That one is much nicer.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It appears to be a Browning 1, Rarity 1.
With the scratches I'd say low AU.
Around $700.
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kanga, are you talking about the OP '38 or the [better] '37?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Only a couple of fused lines and high point rub that I can see, so technically I'd say a 58. Cleaning, most probable. Obverse scratches - long and annoying. Although this is still nicer than the vast majority of this date.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll go 58 and cleaned as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU-58 real nice strike. Yeah those obverse scratches...not a fan.
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United States
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AU-58, old cleaning and retoned. Scratches are unfortunate, but they may not be very noticeable in hand.
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AU details, and there's no way the scratches in front of the face, the two huge scratches right above the cap and the deep scratch across the bust don't details this coin. The reverse also has a patch of what appears to be roughness or corrosion directly above the eagle's head and scratches below the neck; the upper reverse looks like it may have had some burnishing/tooling for spot removal...just not feeling this one.
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01/10/2017 10:39 pm
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Thanks, seller wanted $1200 and advertises as mint state. I thought AU too but the scratches is a good point. Thank you
all again!
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AU-58, old cleaning and retoned.  Don't particularly like this one, looks dipped. |
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