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Valued Member
United States
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Just picked this up, first time buying some of these older coins and wanted some resident old coinage opinions on how I did.   |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Nice coins. Love the clash on that.
I will be the first of many (unless you fix it first) to request that you orient your pictures correctly. My neck hurts.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Don't grade these very often. The lines on the three don't show fully but I think it's a strike issue. I'll say ms62
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Valued Member
 United States
125 Posts |
Corrected picture orientation   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36782 Posts |
Coin looks AU but your photos do not give a good indication of surface quality. The coin may be original or cleaned, not sure.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
The strike on these early year Three Cent Nickels is so hard to grade from photos only. It is very hard to find one with even strike and without die cracks and clashes, which DO NOT increase value. Just the opposite. This is typically struck and there isn't much on the obverse that indicates circulation. But the terrible lack of detail on the III on reverse is hard to swallow as shallow strike. 58 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
136 Posts |
MS-61 but need less over-exposed photos to judge surface quality
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm AU58 also. the first thing I look for on these if I was purchasing one is the reverse strike specifically the columns. I want to see fully split lines in them. this is just a personal preference. the clashes are quite common due to the alloy hardness
Edited by panzaldi
12/23/2017 11:22 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU-58. There is not much detail of the III on the reverse, which doesn't look like weak strike to me.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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ms63. weak reverse strike in the "III". Beautiful obverse strike with excellent hair detail
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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Valued Member
United States
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ICG gave this one MS 62 with clashed dies notation. Seems to be close to what several guessed at.
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Valued Member
United States
125 Posts |
Pictured in holder with grade  |
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Posted 12/21/2017 11:15 pm
