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This one is interesting...Your thoughts? Thanks!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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crusty vf30. hit in obverse field is glaring. looks like an open mouthed ghost floating on the field.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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VF, details, damaged.
The crater in the right obverse field might have passed without detail but someone messed with it, which "captures" the eye.
This is not a coin I would buy, even for a cheap price. There is plenty of lovely coins available.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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EF-40 straight, don't feel the hit would detail it. Not a big fan, though.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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XF40 - I like the eye appeal of the coin, but I would pass because of the pit in the obverse field.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Negative eye appeal (to me) -- this is crusty taken a step too far + that hard pit as noted on the obverse -- gradewise VF35 tops it out.
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Valued Member
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The thing that gets me is that this is a CAC coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The thing that gets me is that this is a CAC coin. CAC largely bases it's sticker decisions off of coin surface originality, not eye appeal. I'm not surprised it beaned. |
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United States
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No offense to everyone one on the forum but I think I would take CAC's opinion after viewing it in hand over everyone else's here that is looking at an image. The thing with this particular seller is his coin images are darker than what the coin appears in hand. He does that to expose the various surfaces. This is also an honest and credible dealer and one of the few where you can trust his written description. Your looking at a smaller coin (smaller than a quarter) with a blown up image enhanced to show the surfaces. In hand that "crater" in the right obverse will not seem as bad. For an exercise, try to shrink that image to size of the actual coin. I bet it will be hard to see that tick on it.
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Valued Member
United States
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Chester, I agree with you and I am a customer of this dealer who has some of the best looking coins in inventory that I've seen next to Legends. His description including this one is very accurate. Thanks for bringing up that point as I have encountered that paradigm when I actually see some coins in person. I am still like all of us always learning.
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Pillar of the Community
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 with Chester - I have not purchased any coins from this dealer, but he is an honest dealer. I love the look of this coin - crusty original. Much better than some of those market acceptable cleaned coins. Edited by SilverDollar2017
04/03/2018 6:29 pm
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Here you go...Thanks to all!  |
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United States
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Nice and crusty, and as others predicted, the close ups likely don't correlate with the in-hand look. The contrast is turned down for the slab shot as well.
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