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jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 5:12 pm Please let me know what y'all think, looks close to FB. Was claimed to be BU ;) * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 5:37 pm If its not dipped, it's a winner. Easy 65 and real possibility of 66. PCGS would probably FB this, although NGC wouldn't. Wish your photos weren't so whites out. Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 5:52 pm Looks like it was shot through a green filter... Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff
jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 5:57 pm Thanks for looking, and your comments! I am working on getting some better pics, first a little acetone soak though, because it either has fingerprints (or ever so light fingerprint toning) on it. Report this Post to the Staff
jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 6:46 pm Microscope pics, can't turn off the LED ring though, so gets washed out. I'm working on better phone pics though. Appreciate everyone's response. I gave low MS dollars for this, wondering if I should send it in? Report this Post to the Staff
numismatic student Bedrock of the Community United States 11894 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 7:26 pm Not great at moderns, but here it goes. I also see a coin that is remarkably mark-free but does not have the luster that a MS65 coin should have in the first set of pictures. Looks like someone may have dipped this coin lightly. I see full bell lines. Hopefully it is the lighting and not the work of someone who tried to "help" this coin. Second overexposed set of pictures shows surface marks hidden in the first set. Second set indicates ms64 if the luster is all there. Nice coin nevertheless. 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 Edited by numismatic student 10/01/2017 7:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
babysitr Pillar of the Community United States 1339 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 8:42 pm With these pics' I can not agree that its FBL...don't look it.strike is good not great, agree probablly MS64...Likely looks better in hand Report this Post to the Staff
jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 9:18 pm Thanks this is really helping me to judge grade. I had another half, 1949 D, I thought was better, however it graded NGC AU58FBL. The first set of pics I posted were the ones from the site where I bought it. All others were the ones I took. Here's the last couple, best I can do with my phone. Report this Post to the Staff
jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 9:31 pm Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 9:41 pm Nice strike . MS-64 FBL . Wish you had sharp precise photos . Candidate for slabbing . Report this Post to the Staff
jstav Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 10/01/2017 10:00 pm I agree about the photos, guess it is time to invest in some better picture taking tools one of these days. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/02/2017 4:44 pm Based on the final 2 pics, I'd say 63 and not a candidate for slabbing. to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
Joseph7420 Bedrock of the Community Canada 11922 Posts	Posted 10/02/2017 11:03 pm I was thinking MS-62. Report this Post to the Staff
IndianGoldEagle Bedrock of the Community United States 36770 Posts	Posted 10/03/2017 09:14 am MS-64, not FBL. Report this Post to the Staff
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