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Hello. I just purchased this from an ebay auction. The seller called it Uncirculated. These are seller pictures. There is a return policy if I am not happy with it in hand. What would you grade it? I plan on submitting. Thank you.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like wear on the thigh AU 53
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dipped with light wear on the high points. This is not an Uncirculated piece. It is not even a nice AU piece because the streaks that were left on the reverse after the coin was dipped. It also should have more luster. Here is a piece that NGC graded MS-64, which has also been dipped. Note the difference in the luster.   Edited by billjones
02/12/2017 4:13 pm
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Hello Bill, thank you for the input. I do see what you are saying. I will submit it instead of returning it because at the price I bought it at, an AU 53 would still be very profitable. Thanks again.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry. I missed the fact that it's a Half Dime. My Half Dime is an 1854, which similar to the 1853 dime.   |
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Poor pics is my guess. I bet it will look better in hand.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Subject coin - AU53 cleaned or dipped, agree.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks cleaned from pics',, keep your fingers crossed!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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XF40 details, cleaned, but nice obverse and reverse die clashes!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It looks like a cleaned AU piece. It's hard to see the luster and if it's still good you should be okay. The dark streak across the reverse might be from improper rinsing after dipping.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Au details
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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Bill, on that dime you posted. I would not have put that in the dipped category. can you explain what are the tell tale signs on this coin to look for?
the original coin listed I have at XF45 details. if it was mine, I would not slab it but if it came back AU it would be good deal.
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Pillar of the Community
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I bought that dime over 10 years ago, and it has gotten a little toning since then. It was white and lustrous when I bought it, and there no way that coin coin of that age could not have picked up some tarnish.
I knew it had been dipped when I bought, but the "With Arrows" coins are not among my favorites. Add to that the fact that the mints pushed the devil out of the dies because of the high mintages in 1853-5 (especially in 1853) and you get a lot of dull, unattractive coins. When you see an 1853 With Arrows coin with a decent look in the MS grade it's worth considering unless you are ready pay of fortune for something that is really superior. I'm not. I'd rather put the big bucks in to a really nice early U.S. coin dated before 1807.
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