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New Member
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I am slowly making my way through my dads Colonials, trying to validate what he has. I needed help determining the Vermont and the two Voce Populi, but this one I know as there aren't as many varieties. My question is about the grade. He remembered it to be in the F range, I am not sure so I am asking you all what you think. And also would/could you do anything about the little bit of green on the reverse and what I am assuming is some sort of pen/pencil mark on the obverse...which is very distracting.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That token is uncirculated and worth quite a bit. Try not to handle it! Wow what a beauty! Leave the green and please don't clean it. (EDIT): So after looking at past sales this coin should be in the $400.00+ range. Has a great original look!
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10/30/2017 6:08 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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i know nothing about this piece but I do know that you do not want to touch this coin with anything as stated. my first thought was that it was in mid-AU range but this is just applying normal grading standards for other coins. hopefully someone pops in with more info for you
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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looks au58 to me. nice!
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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Thank you all for the input. I have read many a discussion about cleaning and was just curious peoples thoughts on this one...of which I won't try to fix the pencil mark. Not that I could convince my dad to have it sent in for grading, would this be worth doing?
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Pillar of the Community
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If that's a simple pencil mark it should come off with an acetone dip. I thought it to be a planchet alloy mix issue.
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I thought it to be a planchet alloy mix issue. I'm inclined to agree, and would not touch the coin. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Beautiful example!  to the CCF! |
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I am just adding my dads other plain edge kentucky to this...certainly not as nice as the lancaster.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good gravy these and the other threads you created have some fantastic examples!!  |
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United States
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Thanks Scopru...I will let him know. The funny thing is he bought them all in bulk. I don't know what he paid for them but I know it wasn't more than $500, but again this was in the 60's. It's crazy to me, as I have been going through all of them, that he had know idea how many nice examples he had...or the value. I give him a bad time about this....that when you add this to all his Canadians (I had posted a few of his nicer ones) I see where my college money went to.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice, thanks for posting these.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The Lancaster edge is at least an AU and might be uncirculated the plain edge maybe a Fine. Both are better than mine. Back in the 60's there wasn't much interest in Conder tokens and uncirculated pieces cost about $1. The Kentucky token would have been higher than that because it's listed in the RedBook, but it probably wasn't more than $5 to $10. |
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Nice examples! |
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Posted 10/30/2017 3:43 pm
