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Just got this today. Any thought on grade? Thanks in advance, Blair  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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im not really good at grading coins....expecially Buffalo nickels... except I give it a grade.....WOW!! |
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United States
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The picture makes it look like it has some odd toning, like a blueish tinge. Beyond that it looks like it's an MS-64.
The third party grading can be very conservative on these. As the first year of issue, large numbers of them were saved.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I also am in the ms64 camp. It could be the lighting but I don't see any wear. As Bill said cause it was a first year issue many were saved, thus high mint state populations.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Tail looks nice but sure looks like wear around horn tip. AU-58?
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Have to disagree on the horn . If there's any wear at all it would be the last letter of LIBERTY.  |
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Very nice details, especially on the hair and buffalo which I also see the tip easily. MS64
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes the horn is tip is seen easily, as it should be even on an EF example - I'm just saying there seems to be slight evidence of wear in this area. I'll stick with AU.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AU-58, light wear on the high points as Frog pointed out.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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58
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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coin appears grainy...possibly dipped at one time
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 with the 58. Surfaces look a little iffy, but that's probably the lighting. |
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Thanks everyone. I actually got this coin in a roll but it was a "made roll" and this was the highlight. It was advertised as AU.
Thanks again,
Blair
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Posted 06/19/2017 2:14 pm
