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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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AU 53 - 55
Probably leaning towards 55.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Difficult to see luster from these pictures. Looks a little gray and flat. Coin looks like it has weak strike with detail lacking along the hairline especially above the ear. Very nice cheek and fields throughout the coin. Reverse is nice.
Looks like a weakly struck 64 without any visible contact marks provided all the luster is there and not showing up on the pics. AU if there is no luster due to contact from circulation. Nice mark-free coin which is rare for these large, heavy coins.
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
Canada
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I presume these are scanned photos?
Hard to grade if so, makes the coin look cleaned and dull looking.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Leaning toward weak strike 63.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
I am at AU-58 from those pictures.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't see wear in the usual places (not that I can see much) but I also don't see luster either. I have a strong suspicion I'm looking at a heavily overdipped lower MS coin that has been robbed of its surfaces, which the obverse discoloration around the edges seems to suggest.
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 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I also see at AU details.
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