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Thoughts on grade/problems? The scratch is on holder   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My net grade would be EF-40. The sharpness is AU-50, but the discoloration on the reverse is distracting.
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53. Nice rim and surfaces.  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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EF-45 tops, maybe 40. Too much wear on hair and lower curls for AU, imho. Still most attractive.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Loved the obverse, even with a few marks. Said ickkyyyhh when I saw the reverse. I myself wouldn't buy that coin even for a "cheap" price.
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Pillar of the Community
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That was a little harsh moxking.
I grade it xf-45. Reverse doesn't look that bad for being 180 years old copper.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Honestly, mox, you are such a pill.
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Can you all explain what the issue with the reverse is?  |
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United States
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What's going on at the curls near the ear? Is that debris in the holder, a hit on the coin, or...? If it's nothing on the coin, then XF40. If it is a hit, then I dunno. The reverse doesn't really bother me.
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The first set of photos gave the reverse discoloration, located at 1 to 3 k and at 9 k a greenish tone. My experience with this sort of thing has been that the stuff might not be inactive. That is compounded by the fact that coin is in a slab which makes it impossible to do anything to arrest this without breaking slab and voiding the warranty, or sending it NCS for some preservation. Niether option would be attractive to me. I would prefer not to buy the coin.
Now it may be that this corrosion is totally arrested and not a problem. If that's so, then the coin is more desirable. Still the marks on the reverse are there, and given the fact that this not a huge rarity, at least with the respect to the date (I am not into Nucomb varieties), I'd prefer to continune looking for another example.
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