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Very nice but for the large, deep gash above the left side of the motto. AU details - scratched.
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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63BN details (apparent gash) -  |
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I'm with the frog on this one with the gash. But I would say au-details.
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AU55BN and I am not sure that is not a lamination flaw or planchet defect - looks almost like a peel. You can see part of the top of "G" inside the damaged area, and this series was famous for die breaks, strike problems, etc.
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 Edited by paralyse
03/04/2017 9:35 pm
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That's a planchet flaw, not a scratch or gash, although it is distracting.
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i agree with moxkong and paralyse that its a planchet flaw. AU55
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 with AU55 Planchet flaw. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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AU-55 Strike through. Nice!
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Here's this one....much more luster than indicated by the pictures. I've got to work on my skills :)  |
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i dont know what I was thinking when I graded this coin AU55. a closer look does not show any wear and the grade given is the correct grade. I probably rushed the grade on it...my bad
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i dont know what I was thinking when I graded this coin AU55. a closer look does not show any wear and the grade given is the correct grade. I kind of agree, after looking at it a bit closer, I don't see wear either, I do see some stuff on the reverse that concerns me and don't think it would make a 63 holder today at PCGS or NGC, probably not even at ANACS. I'm thinking some old light corrosion or verdigris> Hard to tell in the photos. I too am always a sucker for Two Cent Pieces though, I like this one for the lamination flaw alone. I've seen a few others with a very similar flaw in the same spot, not owning or having any photos I saved at hand, I wonder if something got stuck in the strip pressing machine and possibly got put onto more than one planchet. If I had a photo of one I remember we could compare to see if the die pair matched up. A mystery - the kind that intrigues me with the series. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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If I get some time I'll hop over to the photography thread and get some pointers on how to shoot copper and for that matter prooflike and dmpl silver coinage ha.
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