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New Member
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New pickup from the Long Beach Expo today. I'm no expert on these, especially when the date is showing signs of wear and the grade starts plummeting on an otherwise solid coin. Also, the upper part of the S—what is this? I skimmed ebay and found a few other examples of '23 S's with this weird characteristic.   Edited by JoshsCoins
06/09/2017 01:46 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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vf30. 1917-1924 SLQs are graded mainly by the condition of the date because it was raised and the first thing to wear out. Yours has a nicely struck shield with nice rivets, but the date dictates the grade. Nice coin and  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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Rest in Peace
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VF-30 looks right on for this SLQ .  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rounded head and knee with a nice overall strike. I see little wear in this coin and think an XF-40 is appropriate. Nice coin. It looks like it has some hairlines though...Maybe from a light cleaning. It's hard to tell from the pictures.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think it makes EF-40, just. Nice example.
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Thanks for the feedback, everybody! I've been scouring ebay for certified 1917-1924 SLQ's to look at and compare, and I think if I sent it in I'd expect a 35. |
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Pillar of the Community
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XF-40 perhaps cleaned at one time. Always tough to find!
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