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Pillar of the Community
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I'll pick door #2. Surfaces aren't great but looks mark free. #1 is scratched but has beautiful surfaces with intact mint flowlines. #3 is scratched also but has beautiful color. I'd say they are in ms63 maybe 64 holders. I wish the coin had the surfaces of #1, was mark free like #2 and the color of #3. Then the coin would be gem  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
10/04/2017 3:21 pm
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Same grade huh? Different TPG's I assume. #2 is definite pick at MS63/64 the other two are problem coins, period. #1 is circulated, lightly, too many rim hits at maybe AU-55, but personally would grade it AU-50. #3 has been cleaned and artificially attempted to "retone", bad job there, this is also down around AU-50/53. If you get th#2 for AU price you did well. |
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Rest in Peace
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I tend to agree with most everything numismatic student listed.
I have one questions. Are the three obverse cheek scratches on #1 on the coin or the holder?
If they are on the coin I can't see it graded the same as the other two if they are MS.
Since its so tough to determine a high AU versus a mint state without being able to roll the luster in hand, since all three have the center hair curls incomplete, I'm going to go 58.
I'd pick #2 if #1 has scratches on the cheek. If they are on the holder, then #1.
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I'll take #2 and guess they all graded 63, though I really wouldn't grade any of them that individually, if that makes sense.  |
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Is that a die crack at the A in AMERICA or is it something on the slab?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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#2 is the best of the lot mainly because It's problem free . #1 has facial marks and big hit on bottom of V . #3 has hit obverse field at 2:00 . Discoloration on upper part of reverse . I'll say AU-58 for all even though I disagree that they all have the same grade .  |
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I would guess AU-58 for all three, and I like the second one the best.
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