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New Member
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Hi all... Looking for a little help grading this coin. My grandparents 40 years ago simply had it as AU. Thanks in advance for the forum's help. NHcoinster   Edited by NHcoinster
04/04/2017 9:30 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Hard to see all of the surfaces but it looks au53 to me. The eagle's talons look worn. The leaves held in talons look weakly struck, but the rest of the coin doesn't. Nice details in the eagle's feathers and liberty's hair. Nice luster in spots.
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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Thanks NS... I've gotta make due (for the moment) with coaxing my cell phone to take close up pics, and obviously it doesn't work well. I'll keep trying tho.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sure AU-53 sounds good. Nice strike.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would agree with 53-55 but again the pictures are too blurry to determine surface originality
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United States
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The coin probably looks better than this. The problem is not with your phone, it is with your lighting.
Unless better lighting shows evidence of cleaning, it looks to be a AU-50 - AU-55.
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04/05/2017 08:42 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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a little tough for an accurate grade using these pics. it looks mid AU. i'll go with AU55 as it looks like there is very slight wear and there may be some original luster remaining.
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Posted 04/04/2017 9:41 pm
