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Rest in Peace
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The 55 may have old cleaning, still see some vertical hairlines...yes most coins were given the blast white dip treatments in the 60's and 70's by dealers thinking the "public" (aka. idiots) wanted nice shiny coins. These do look naturally retoned, or even original skin on the 53. Love the arrows/rays on the 25/50c's myself, one of my favorite designs, just under the Walkers! Nice details for type set!
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01/20/2018 1:13 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Both may have had old cleanings. The half I would judge fully "market acceptable" today, but I'd like a sharper pic of the quarter's obverse, which here seems to show indications of cleaning marks.
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Bedrock of the Community
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1853 25c - xf details cleaned
1855 50c - xf40. has indications of cleaning and some rim dings, but may be market acceptable.
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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53 is showing physical cleaning with parallel lines.
55 wiped, but not harshly.
Both EF if they fly under the cleaning detail.
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Pillar of the Community
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1853 Quarter looks VF-35 to me...too much wear on the legs. 1855 is EF-40. They both looked like they've been cleaned. For future purchases, watch out for hairlines and scratches (like those on the obverse of the half dollar.) In fact, I don't like the rims of the half. Perhaps removed from a jewelry mount?
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Pillar of the Community
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Quarter - VF-30, obverse pic is too blurry to tell if cleaned.
Half Dollar - XF details, scratched and cleaned.
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