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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Picked up this 1941 Walking Liberty half dollar in an old small white ANACS holder for a really good price. The toning looked black in the seller's pictures but I figured it was worth a small gamble, which seems to have worked out fine for me. The reverse has a neat die crack through the tips of the left wing feathers (viewer's right), which I didn't notice until I took these pictures! The designer's monogram, "AW", is also very weak, but visible. Thoughts on how ANACS graded this Walking Liberty half dollar? It's a full grade (no details) in the small holder, numeric SN w/green logo. Two sets of photos. Thanks!     Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
06/11/2017 12:54 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
Looks like a weakly struck 64, but the hairlines all over the fields indicate that it was cleaned. The weak strike is most evident in liberty's left handand the eagle's breast feathers. Maybe anacs net graded it to 62. Obverse fields show both horizontal and diagonal sets of parallel hairlines. Nice luster and toning.
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
United States
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I mostly disagree . I think the scratches are on the slab .Real nice head , nice breast and leg feathers , nice skirt lines with no hits , and the lack of details on left hand is extremely typical on most WLH's . Adam , I believe you did good with this one .  MS-65 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36844 Posts |
Seems like rub right down the center of Miss Liberty. Same on eagle's breast feathers and left leg. I'm at "slidder Unc" on this one. AU-58
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12057 Posts |
There are no hairlines across the devices, and what appear to be "horizontal hairlines" are metal flowlines indicative of worn dies, as evidenced by the die crack I mentioned in my original post.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
06/11/2017 3:09 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sorry, can't get past 58.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3516 Posts |
Its tough. Definetely a slider. Id go 58 or 62... Nice toning
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
Ye AU58 crowd hath the grade correctly guessed. I thought it was quite nice for an AU58, and at least I see some people felt so as well. But there is definitely rub!! Seller's original picture, w/slab  Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3058 Posts |
Yay! I was going to say 58 too!
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