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The New Orleans Mint opened and began minting coins in 1838, after being established as a part of Andrew Jackson's westward push to expand the country. The no mint cranked out silver dollars beginning in 1846. Silver LS$s were minted at this branch in 1846, 1850, 1859 and 1860. Of these, the 1850 issue is the scarcest and most valuable. Very happy to acquire this first year Mint issue today which incidentally had a tiny mintage of 59,000 coins. Compare that to the 13.32 million silver dollars produced at the high water mark for silver dollar production by the no mint in 1901. Kindly let me know your thoughts on grade and problems. Thanks!   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 9:47 pm
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Like the look a lot. XF-45 sounds good. Is there something going on on the obverse rim @ 12:00?
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EF-40, just a superb example for the grade. Evident feather wear and weak Liberty hair hold this back.
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That's a pretty coin!
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Is there something going on on the obverse rim @ 12:00? Looks like the coin was dropped on that side, giving it a dent.  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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XF-45. Relatively blemish free for these big old dollars other than the rim ding. However, that ding doesn't distract IMO. Nice pick up.
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XF40 - very nice example!
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Almost looks like a lamination rather than a rim bruise at 12:00? I agree with XF40 and maybe 45 if there's any luster at all.
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XF 45 nice example!!  |
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Looks like y'all nailed this one for all intents and purposes...  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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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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My grade would be EF-40 and no more. I think that the rim thing at the top of the obverse is probably market acceptable. I would look at it hard though to make sure that there are no file marks. File marks to remove rim bumps is a bad thing, even when it's in a TPG holder. Over a year ago when I was looking for Lesher Dollar (look it up in the Red Book), I was looking at an NGC graded piece. The dealer wanted "all the money" desptie the fact that the rim had been filed to remove an edge bump. Rim bumps can be a problem on these pieces because they are octagonal, not round. NGC had ignored the rim bump and the filing which left the piece over priced by $2,500 to $3,000 in my opinion. |
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 that a 40 is tops here although I think the natural surfaces are extremely attractive & exactly what I love to see in Seated coinage. 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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