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Bedrock of the Community
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Picked this up today. This was a challenging coin for me to grade, and figure out what I ought to pay for it. I was able to attribute it as Sheldon 293 (S-293). The main diagnostic is that the 3 in the date and Star 13 are close (about 1.5mm apart. There are only two die pairs for this date and the other variety has the 3 in the date and Star 13 very far apart (3.5mm). This was one of the easy ones to attribute, although not as easy as the 1809 which has only one know die pair. The S-293 variety for this coin is thought to be Rarity 2. William Sheldon wrote that it is in the upper (scarcer) range of R2 and is the substantially scarcer of the two 1813 die pair varieties. Classic Head large cents are scarce. The 1813 cents were among the issues with a mintage that was less than a million at 418,000. Your thoughts on grade and problems (Ha! - take your pick) are appreciated. Thanks!      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
02/19/2018 7:07 pm
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Looks to be VF-30 details. Corroded and cleaned of course :)
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From those pictures, I would think EF-40 Details.
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Thanks. one of my favorite things about this coin is the center dot in the reverse of this coin. it looks like a perfectly formed semi-sphere popping out from the reverse fields.  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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in hand now. coin looks darker than these pics.   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
02/24/2018 03:09 am
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