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Valued Member
United States
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Picked this one off ebay a couple weeks ago for 100 bucks. The pictures looked a lot better before I uploaded them and it's actually a pretty nice coin was wondering what the thoughts were on grade and value.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AU details - intentionally damaged. It is a high grade coin but someone decided to redesign the shield on the obverse. The pock marks there aren't accidental as they follow a very intentional pattern. Shame as it is otherwise a very pretty coin.
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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Valued Member
Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Valued Member
United States
219 Posts |
XF Details, not enough luster to be AU
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's interesting how the same thick/thin shield lines occur on the reverse, too, but the angle is different. There's some funny stepwise irregularity going on with the outer edge of the coin, obverse side. Could this be some sort of artifact from image processing?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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EF sharpness, cleaned probably with an abrasive.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks for all the replies on this coin, I Fixed the pictures now, something went wrong with the resizing that distorted them the first time.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree EF-45 sharpness, extensive cleaning at some point.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Great hair detail! XF-45. Probably lightly cleaned long ago. I do like this one. Especially with the new pictures!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Holy cow! Is that the same coin? What happened to all the marks on the shield and ribbon?  I am at AU50 for the new coin. 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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United States
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