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This is a 1926-S I picked up a few years ago. One of the tougher branch mint years to get with a decent strike. These can all be a little hard to grade, is it strike or wear? Looking for fellow CCF members thoughts.   |
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I'm no expert on SLQ , but it sure does look like wear to me ,not strike , but also could have had a weak strike when it was freshly out of the mint . Add that to circulation and this is what you wind up with . VF-35/40 .  |
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I'm at VF-30. The strike looks average for the type, with flat central head detail. Surfaces look original and the coin has good eye appeal.
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The mint mark looks really sharp. Some how the coin looks mushy or crusty I am not sure which. It looks like it was treated with a chemical. It has sort of a tacky look to it. Among the higher grade coins with recessed dates it is worth three times as much as most of the others except for the 27-S. The 27-D is worth $310 in MS63 with mintage of less than one million. The 26-S has mintage of 2.7 million and is worth $775 in MS63. Anyone have an explanation of this weird fact. Two potential sleepers in this set are the 19-S and 19-D. They are as scarce as 1921 and yet sell for much less. In MS60 you can get them both for less than $1000. I saw a nice 1916 that was graded as fine and yet had a very strong date. That would be a coin to buy. I could afford to buy it if I sold some stock and took the loss.
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Soft obverse strike with some circulation hurts the grade.
But, looking at this coin again, imagine the stories it can tell?!?!?! A grandfather could have pressed this into the palm of a birthday child in their life.
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It's a safe 40, but not by much.
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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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