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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you think the grade of the bust half is?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3479 Posts |
Too aggressive. I'll back it down to au-53
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
It looked off to me, but I could not find a match on the no-no site.
EF details, cleaned.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11917 Posts |
XF details. Wipe marks on obverse.
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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
The obverse fields/devices have been cleaned. Detail looks AU, the pics are too small to tell much else.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1499 Posts |
The sharpness grade is AU, but I think that the coin has wiped with an abrasive and that some black stuff was rubbed on it to try to cover it up. The obverse fields look suspiciously shiny.
A rule of thumb that all collectors should use is this. When you see an potentially important coin like this that is still raw, not certified, you should be extra careful. By now many of the good coins have been certified, and now quite often the pieces that are raw are raw because they can't get a straight grade.
I'm not saying that all raw coins are problem coins, but I am saying that raw coins buyers need to be extra vigilant.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
EF-45 details, obverse clearly cleaned comparing fields to the reverse.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18720 Posts |
XF45 details. cleaned also
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3843 Posts |
I'd avoid this one. XF-Details
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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