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Bedrock of the Community
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au50. Nice album toning. Lack of luster holds it back. Typical weakly struck head and hair. Nicely struck otherwise.
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 is what I would grade it. It's hard to tell wear vs. strike but the eagles talons look like wear.
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AU-50, just barely. Exceptional gorgeous bullseye tone.
I really love this example.
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Bedrock of the Community
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No doubt a beautiful coin, but no way this makes AU with that hair and right (facing) breast. Side bets welcome.
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I'm still at AU, you can't beat me down Frog.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm with the EF-45 camp.
But there's a good chance this will grade AU-50.
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Bedrock of the Community
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C'mon, just focus on the completely worn hairline, bust, and leading arm and knee. Not enough meat on this bone for AU. If OP submits, I'm taking bets.
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Im at ef45. Get it slabbed. Beautiful coin
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C'mon, just focus on the completely worn hairline, bust, and leading arm and knee. Not enough meat on this bone for AU. If OP submits, I'm taking bets.
Unless something more than "wear" is involved, it only circulated on one face then, 'cause the reverse sure as heck isn't 45.  I've never fully ascribed to the platitude "always grade by the lower face," because I feel it an intellectual copout. Indeed, when the disparity in apparent grade is large enough, when contemplating grade as a comparison to what the coin looked like the day it left the Mint one might be better-served by grading the better face and then trying to figure out why the opposite face didn't fare as well. How might you explain how one face of this coin received notably more wear than the other? |
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