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Pillar of the Community
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What do you grade the following? Which do you believe is the nicest based on your grade? Thanks for all help!    |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Immediate first impression - #1.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks mox! What do you grade it at? The others have cool but I guess strange toning
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I like the 1845, looks MS-63 or 64.
1857 AU-55, 1859-O AU-58.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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All look AU-58 or better, would probably pick the 1857 for overall balance but don't really love any of them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I picked the red, white and blue 1845 in the other thread and pick it again. The 1859-O is nice too.  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
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It's all about eye appeal. I would take the 59 in a heartbeat over the others. Easy decision here. You're looking at these small gals under a lot of magnification. The 59 will look best in hand.
Edited by MikeF
09/11/2017 10:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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The '59 has a weird zombie face. Not sure if they're tick marks or just bad toning there. That's a deal breaker for me. It looks like it has a lot of marks in the obverse field too if you look past the toning. That one is too baggy.
The '45 has a weird look to its face too lol.
The '57 is the star of these three though. It has what looks like awesome die breaks around the stars. I'm not sure what's happening around Liberty's flag holding arm. Lots of die breaks on the reverse too. Toning aside, that's the best coin of the three!
Edited by chesterb
09/11/2017 10:36 pm
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