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Edited by MikeF
08/17/2017 09:23 am
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Oh, hello. I've the feeling PCGS called this AU-58 because of what appears to be slight rub on various parts of each face. That would make the coin well-bought indeed; it's proof of why slightly-circulated examples are often far more appealing than lower Mint State ones. Beautiful coin at any grade.  |
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 with AU-58. I'd pay a lot more for that beauty than for an ugly toned 62. An absolute winner of a coin. |
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So what does the coin look like? Is it the first two photos that look weird or the last one that looks normal?
The first two pictures have an artificial toned look to them. The last one looks okay.
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So what does the coin look like? Is it the first two photos that look weird or the last one that looks normal?
The first two pictures have an artificial toned look to them. The last one looks okay. Expect the last image to be the color-accurate one. Between the difficulty with accurately lighting toning in a closeup image, and the difficult-to-remove diffusion caused by the thickness of the slab plastic, the top two images should be taken as illustrations of detail rather than accurately representing color. That said, the "as best as it can be done" images of the coins in digital photography will be much brighter than the last image here and closer to the first two, simply because much stronger lighting will be used to achieve sufficient contrast than we normally need in visual inspection. Digital camera imagery is quite accurate; if you lit the coin for your own eye exactly as you would to shoot it, and look at it from the same distance and angle as the camera, that's what the coin would look like to you.  |
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Nice. In the new images, fairly graded and well-bought. Regardless of what you paid. 
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Thanks Super Dave! Nice to meet you for the first time. Where you been, bro? African safari?
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Thanks Super Dave! Nice to meet you for the first time. Where you been, bro? African safari? Yeah, I see you've joined during my sabbatical. After devoting ten years of my life to this place, almost nine of them as a Moderator, I took some time off to recharge the batteries and rediscover which side of the fence actually held the greener grass. |
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Nice coin. I like the variety with the eagle laying an egg.
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Hey, try to give us at least 48 hours to respond before showing the grade please! |
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au55 and very attractive. nice pick.
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
08/18/2017 2:21 pm
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