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Here is the 1874 With Arrows Half Dollar that is in my type set. Would care to grade it? I'll follow up with the grade and a commentary after you have taken a crack at it.   |
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I personally don't do GTG.
What chance do I (and advanced amateur looking at a picture) have against a pro with the coin in hand.
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That said, I like the coin.
I have a full set of "arrows at date" SL coins, all face values/all dates/all mint marks.
Not surprisingly most of my CC coins are low grades except for the half dollars.
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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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Lovely solid 65. I especially like the peripheral toning.
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Very nice coin!! Lovely. MS-64 and chance at 65
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i just dread grading Bill's coins. I doubt I got a handful right. I always tend to overgrade them. my first thought was MS66 but I'm going with 65 just because
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I'll say 64. Beautiful coin, but not pristine.
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PCGS graded this piece MS-63. I liked the eye appeal of this coin when I bought it although I knew it had been dipped. When I posted it on the PCGS blog I got a lot of negative comments because it has been dipped. Such is the market these days.
With some of these people there is no pleasing them. Some silver coins are dipped because they have unattractive or destructive toning. The purists will not buy them "as is," and yet condemn the coin after it has been dipped.
I have to admit that the 1873-4 With Arrows silver coins are among my least favorite types. They are scarce and expensive, and the story behind them is not that interesting. The weights for the dime, quarter and half dollar were slightly increased to bring them up to an even Metric System amount.
During this people the world's politicians were kicking around ideas about international coinages that circulate globally, not just within their respective countries. The most interesting these proposals from the United States was the Stella or Four Dollar Gold Piece. That resulted in those beautiful and expensive patterns which were made in other metals in addition to gold. A few months ago a dealer I know well had a few of them in gold plated copper.
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I love this coin billjones. Just a question what should I see on this coin to tell me it has been dipped? I love the toning. thanks
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