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xf details cleaned
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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After saying cleaned (which I agree with) a grade doesn't mean that much.
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Yup, I'm at VF25 Det.
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Thanks all. I thought xf after it was cleaned. It was cleaned with warm water and a soft cotton rag to get the dirt off. It was dug up in 1979 near the site of the Columbian Exposition 1893. Its probably the best of 40 + pieces I have from that location. The coin-archeology representing that historic event makes it priceless to me. AG
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I'd say VF-30 sharpness but cleaned. Since it came from the Columbian Expo site, it's shame it can't talk. It would have some good stories to tell. Given the sharpness, it might have come from a family hoard where the folks dug into an old coookie jar to get the money to go to the fair. If it had been in circulation for almost 40 years, it would not have been that sharp.
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