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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Picked this up today for $123. I was on the fence on whether this was vf35 or xf40. I like the obverse, but the feathers of the eagle's legs in the reverse are weak. The leaves and arrowheads show nice detail. Your thoughts on grade and problems are, as always, greatly appreciated.   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.comEdited by numismatic student
06/11/2017 2:39 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm at VF 40 cleaned a while ago
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, EF-40 old cleaning.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Agree with VF-35 to xf-40. I could see it going either way. I can't tell if it was cleaned or not. It certainly has a nice tone now however. Nice coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree it's a tossup grade-wise, 35 or 40. I like the hair detail but reverse is not full 40 I must agree. The mottled obverse color and bland, rather light reverse color definitely suggest an old cleaning to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
824 Posts |
EF40 for the obverse and VF 35 for the reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Great head detail. XF-40. Nice coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Cleaned, common date, not for me.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
11896 Posts |
This came pretty fast. As advertised.   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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Down to VF-35, still funky color, don't love it.
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06/13/2017 8:10 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11896 Posts |
No worries. I hear there's this thing called gradeflation which should make my coin MS65 in a few years.  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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 In the spirit of beating a dead horse ( ) for which there appears to be an icon, I received some coins back from a TPG submission so updating some old threads. Thanks for all your help!   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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I always wondered what that emoji was!
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