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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Since "Yesterday" has been posting some nice Shield nickels, let's see what you think of this one. I bought it raw and had it graded.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll start it off. Love it by the way. I would say MS65 maybe 66. Looks to have some amazing luster.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes. Great luster. Reverse Cuds look interesting too. I like this coin at MS-64. Reverse strike, while typical, is rather weak. Very nice coin! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have it at somewhere between 63 and 64. Small reverse scratch to left of 5 between the rays. Discoloration at 7 o'clock in reverse near rim. Reverse rim Cuds due to failing dies at the edges. Few hits to the horizontal and vertical lines in the shield in obverse. Some raised metal from die rust at the base of leftmost vertical line of shield. Die cracks. Hit to the 1 in the date. Interesting that the sixes in the date have different fonts. Nice obverse fields and overall luster. Beautiful 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.comEdited by numismatic student
02/21/2017 4:33 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
I'm thinking MS65. I can't really pick up the color/luster so it's tough to go higher (or lower).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I'll say 65. Really beautiful.
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Pillar of the Community
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64+. Nice looking nickel!
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02/21/2017 5:12 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8517 Posts |
Agree with IGE...64
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2189 Posts |
MS-65, beautiful fields, the coin has eye appeal+.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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MS-64  |
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Valued Member
United States
397 Posts |
Another busy one, nice coin, MS-65
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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For those of you who guessed MS-64, congratulations! That's what NGC graded it.
BTW the "brown spots" are not really defects. They are areas where the copper is showing in the alloy. Remember that these coins are made of 75% copper and 25% nickel. In the 19th century the mint did not always get the metals mixed properly. In fact the mint had a lot of problems in the production of these coins. Mint employees called copper-nickel "the devil's copper" for that reason.
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