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Please preview your post/pictures to be they are rotate correctly.
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VF-20 or so, appears polished.  to the CCF! |
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Here you go:   I like it for 29A, with a caveat. It's a good attribution, as there are two other VAMs for this year which strongly resemble 29A - 14A and 35A. The caveat: VAM-29 is nothing special; VAM-29 A is a Top 100 coin with added value. As a result, there tends to be a relatively high emphasis placed on the distinction between the two, as for all VAMs where there is a "money" subvariety of the base coin. In this case, it's the strength of the break between the 1 of the date and the denticles which makes the determination. These images aren't sufficient to decide between an "LDS VAM-29" and "VAM-29A." I lean towards the latter, but detail images would be required to offer any firm opinion. In any event, the coin is well-worn and - as Coinfrog mentioned - looks heavily polished, so any premium would be greatly lessened. |
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Yes VF-20 polished. Don't submit.
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I haven't polished this I don't understand was it possibly because of the way I took the picture?Light was refracting off of it.
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What would be the best way to take the picture?
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Whomever owned it before you heavily polished it, resulting in the hairlines and unnaturally shiny surfaces -- coins with this much wear should not be shiny or reflective. It's sellable but not for much more than its silver content, despite the VAM. Unless someone is working on a T100 set and has no other options, but even then, the premium would not be high over melt due to the issues. 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 |
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vf deets polished
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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