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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Would appreciate your thoughts on grade and problems. Particularly, I was wondering whether the lines radiating out on the coin's fields we are mint press flow lines, worn late state dies or post-mint damage. Thanks!   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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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nice looking coin. Look like flowlines to me. XF 45 is grade guess
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
594 Posts |
To me it has AU details but questionable color...... not an expert though.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18706 Posts |
AU55 looks original to me. I like it
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
AU-53 or better, does look rather dark.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3164 Posts |
agree with AU sharpness but not sure about having any luster left to get AU grade
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Pleasing XF with a mottled toning that some find attractive. I like it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1499 Posts |
AU sharpness, but the dark surfaces are a concern. It can't grade AU with that color. It might be a dark EF.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2364 Posts |
Very nice large cent. First my disclaimer - I have a lot of old copper but I don't know much.  That's why I love this forum and what I am learning every day. OK, time to reveal my crazy thought about this coin. I agree that it looks AU but I'm also concerned about the dark color. When I see what some have described as flow lines is it possible that someone treated the coin with some kind of goop (not a technical term) and that's why it's dark and the goop made what appears to be the flow lines? Yikes did I just suggest that?  Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith Edited by cipster
04/13/2017 5:30 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Guys, don't excited over this coin. The color and the surfaces are not nice. Years ago PCGS would not have graded this coin. Today, I'm not sure.
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Posted 04/12/2017 4:26 pm
