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58. obv more rubbed than rev. nice strike. color dark and less attractive.
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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I'd go with -53 or -55. But the question is would a TPG think that the toning is covering problems. |
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Nice looking coin, thanks for sharing, I know nothing about grading.
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AU55 underneath the toning.
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Mid AU. Not a fan of the toning, too dark for my taste and it could indeed be hiding an old cleaning.
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See, now I love this toning, assuming the pics are accurate! This is how I would imagine a coin from the 1870's to look like untouched and I bet you could get CAC approval if you submitted it. I grade this AU-58 based on the wear seen in the pics. I imagine some of the toning, especially around the date, wheat stalks and the right stars have a blueish appearance when viewing the coin in hand.
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