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Pillar of the Community
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Not something you grade every day, but I'll say mid-VF, maybe VF-30 with wonderfully original surfaces. Great coin!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sweet gunmetal gray surfaces give this one a lot of curb appeal. A nice even strike and minimal contact marks add to the overall beauty. I agree that VF30 sounds about right weighing a potential VF25 as a technical grade and a VF35 as a market grade (these days).
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Pillar of the Community
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Rest in Peace
United States
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VF30 for me. Very nice example!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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25 seems right.
Who else clicked this link preparing themselves for another terrible laughable copy, and was pleasantly surprised.
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Valued Member
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Who else clicked this link preparing themselves for another terrible laughable copy, and was pleasantly surprised. I did. As for the coin, I'm also in the 25 camp. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks like a nice vf30 to me but there is what looks like intentional damage on the shield. Doesn't look like it would cause it to be details graded, especially for this series, but I would net grade it down one notch to vf25.
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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Oh.. This is a doozy  OBV - VF20 REV - VF25 Net - VF25, IMO. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I have the "same" date in 30 that is nearly a twin to this one.
I'd take a closer look at the obverse eye to insure that it hasn't been reengraved.
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Pillar of the Community
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That's an interesting comment Mox. I zoomed in for a better look. Thoughts?  |
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Nope. The eye is fine. It has a bit better strike and the marks in front of the eye had me wondering.
It's perfectly good.
I always look for re-engraved details on any of the busts, primarily because my very first bust purchase, a half dollar, had that problem.
Overly skittish on my part.
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