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Bedrock of the Community
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Polished with a dremel buffer.
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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In this case mechanically buffed after more aggressive rotary polishing often referred to as whizzing.
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The coin is probably a Chinese counterfeit. Weight and a look at the reeding would confirm that
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Pillar of the Community
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It looks like they tried to polish it so much that some of the plating is wearing off.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote:
Why would someone buff just certain areas of this coin? toning 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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It got wrecked....that's what happened to it! Numismatically worthless.
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Pillar of the Community
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I think there was solder, and that was the seller's way to "fix" the problem.
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Quote:Customer from a previous sale returned this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1877-TRADE-...047675.l2557 Mystery solved thanks to Debrajc for noticing the previous sale. Those who said it was polished/whizzed were right! Per a feedback comment - "Very good seller, took back coin with no hassel, will buy again.", then looking at that listing, one finds the same coin in an earlier stage of surface alteration. See below.  Edited by nss-52
03/16/2017 08:40 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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That is what I suspected, heavily burnished/tooled to remove damage and corrosion  |
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I suspect that this dollar was minimally chopmarked and repaired. A few, random chopmarks might tempt a coin fixer. Here's an unrepaired example.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It has been polished to remove graffiti from the fields on both sides. The earlier sale still shows some of the graffiti, it was returned and the polished it some more in an attempt to get rid of the rest of it.
Edited by Conder101
03/16/2017 2:03 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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ExoGuy - good point, good example.
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Edited by nss-52
03/16/2017 8:02 pm
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Posted 03/15/2017 6:52 pm
