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New Member
United States
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Good afternoon, I recently got this Half Cent, please give me your opinion on grade and any other bits of information you note about this coin. Thank you. dcas55   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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VF-30 sharpness, but reduced to VF-20 toning issues and the mark on the neck. This coin would not get a grade from a front line third party grader
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Rest in Peace
United States
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VF-35. The darker adhesion on the topmost design elements on the obverse might be removed very easily with pure acetone. Once the coloration was more monotone I believe it would show a bit better.
Light dip with the acetone, pure water wash after, air dry with slight touches of cotton but NO brushing or scrubbing.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Light dip with the acetone, pure water wash after, air dry with slight touches of cotton but NO brushing or scrubbing. Ok but Quote:
pure water wash after, I would not risk the pure water wash. How pure is it? Rinse with a new solution of acetone. IMO |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Best of luck - I fear this won't help too much. The spots in front of the eye and above the numeral 1 may well show a non-conforming underneath even if they do lift a bit.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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XF-40. I think that dark stuff will come off nicely with some acetone.
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Valued Member
United States
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XF here too and I think it looks fine and would not attempt any cleaning.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Reverse has been damaged above the bow and above TE in STATES; obverse has hits on neck and on front of coronet/back of hair bun; porosity above head, left and right of bust, and the face has been scraped up. My grade VF35 sharpness but would details at any TPG. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
01/22/2017 12:06 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No Grade - Requires conservation. Bodybag candidate. XF details for wear.
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.comEdited by numismatic student
01/21/2017 11:59 pm
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Valued Member
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Count me in for EF-40 also.
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