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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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Nizzzzzaacee!. Love to have that in my collection. Got a beauty. Strong strike it seems, looks original on obverse, am I seeing hairlines on reverse?
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08/20/2017 8:25 pm
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She's a beauty for sure!! Very nice acquisition.  |
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am I seeing hairlines on reverse? I see the hairlines on the reverse below "CENT," but the seller doesn't mention these. Instead the seller says that there are some hairlines in the left obverse. It wasn't immediately apparent from the pictures but there is a long line that spears the wing and neck of the eagle and runs vertically the entire length of the coin. There are also two other lines that run vertically below the beak of the eagle. These can be seen best in the third picture without glare. Will have to inspect carefully when in hand. Any shots at grade? 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
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Nicely struck and the color looks good to me. The obverse has a bit of a polished appearance in some images. Otherwise it looks MS63 which is a $1,000 coin?!
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Unc details cleaned from the first pic of the obverse, MS61 from the second. The lighting really throws me off. A beauty in any case!  Edited by coinlover1899
08/20/2017 11:33 pm
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Those are three drastically different photo sets. As displayed, I'm thinking it will exaggerate the smallest potential problems. First set had me immediately thinking cleaned, although not on the next two sets.
For the sake of a conservative opinion, I'd say Uncirculated, details, cleaned.
Still a huge bit better than most. Congratulations.
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Bedrock of the Community
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MS details, cleaned. Most obvious in the first two photos.
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Low MS. maybe 61 or 62. lightly cleaned but I dont think it would keep it from getting a straight grade. nice coin
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Agree, 62 and market acceptable,
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I would think MS-63, but with no call on surface originality.
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Wow! I was bidding on that one but dropped out early. If you send it in let us know how it turns out.
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Any hairlines on this coin are an incidental scrape against something; you would not arrive at surfaces of such complete consistency with a coin that needed cleaned unless you spent half an hour brushing it in which case it'd be rather more obvious. The surfaces might be adjudicated scratches, but in my opinion "cleaning" is out of the question.
It has a shot at 63.
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SsuperDdave is back?!   |
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