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Just received this one today.   |
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au58. some hairlining on obverse. striking weakness in hair and reverse in III and laurel at 1 o'clock.  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
01/08/2018 9:39 pm
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au-50 with an unusually soft strike in the lower hair. It must have been cleaned if its au.
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 Really nice!!! |
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AU-53. to the CCF! |
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to the CCF! AU-53 |
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AU58 from just the obv hairlines, though I could see a low MS grade on it too, looks more like weak strike than actual wear.
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It's been two days now, so I figure it's a good time to reveal the actual grade on the slab. Here it is:  I was surprised at the consensus here that the coin was AU. Seems like PCGS attributed the softness of the high points to weakness of strike, rather than wear. Differentiating AU coins from Mint State ones is tough, and I'm still not entirely clear how it's done. |
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I'm happy to see that the 3PG got it right. It is a nice coin. The Three Cent Nickel is a tough coin to grade and thus there are many great finds out there if you know what to look for. The soft strike is actually die clashing/filling. Note the lower hair flattening corresponds to the flattening of the upper right leaves on the reverse. The flattened hair above the ear are related to the flattened area of the 'III'. The areas to determine wear are 1. The cornet beads. In this example they are really nice. 2. Veins of the leaves. In this example they are sharp everywhere there is no clash. 3. The far right 'I', which was not clashed,shows strong inner lines with no wear. The rare finds for 1865 is no clashing. I only have a couple examples. |
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