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Bedrock of the Community
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Some Christmas Eve acquisitions. Thoughts on grade and problems? TPG grade and price in 48. Thanks!  1860 was a low mintage year for this issue @286,000 struck. This is before production dropped off a cliff in 1863.   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.comEdited by numismatic student
12/25/2017 10:12 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Notoriously difficult to photograph, you've done an above average job so we can actually see that tiny tot.
Obverse has a little better than average strike, while the reverse has a typically weak strike.
Since neither strike is dead center, it's tough to tell strike weakness from circulation. Likewise, the fields are so tiny that trying to establish disturbance is neigh impossible.
There is a large die crack on the reverse, which is obvious, but I'm not certain if the line that bisected all three III is a scratch or another die crack.
Never cleaned, which is a huge bonus.
AU-55 is my best guess.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Agree AU-55, and nice pics for sure.
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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU55. the scratches on the reverse are a little distracting. since this is a blowup its hard to tell whether they are bad enough for a details designation
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like everyone wins first prize  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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