Posted 02/20/2018 10:34 am
Ms63 and very nice. Looks like a surface scratch from the ear down the middle of the neck. Another smaller one on the bridge of the nose. The feathering on the eagle looks proof-like. One other concern is that the obverse stars look like they are surrounded by dark edge toning. Hope that is toning and not some dark grime. I like the look of the coin. 
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."
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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
with frog. The toning that numismatic student mentioned indicates to me that the obverse was cleaned at some point in the past and has retoned, with the areas that were not reached by the cleaning turning darker (around the stars). I love the reverse, and had it not been cleaned I think this is a solid MS-64 coin, but sadly I have to say MS Details. NGC probably gave it a straight grade though.
