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Edited by jerryc39
06/04/2018 1:10 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Kind of coin I'd break out of the slab and put in my Album.
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Pillar of the Community
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Decent enough. The obverse looks like it's been cleaned.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Decent enough. The obverse looks like it's been cleaned. Looks like a nice coin with original surfaces. GreatCollections' photography makes the coin appear cleaned. MikeF and basebal21 were discussing this coin a few days ago. |
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The dark haloes around Liberty and the stars are nearly perfect, suggesting to me that the entire obverse was originally dark. Whether it was or not, this appearance probably kept the bidding down.
Where the pole passes over the arm, the original patina is still present. Yet the adjacent cap and arm surfaces show no patination.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
Edited by thq
06/04/2018 12:18 pm
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Have you seen the PCGS TrueView pics thq? The coin looks completely different. Much more pleasing surface color. Anyway, this will finally help resolve the debate about GC's photos, mostly between Mike and Baseball. If jerryc39 could tell us which looks more like the coin in hand - the GC pics or the TrueView - this will help with what I am now calling "The Great GC Photography Debate."  Edited by SilverDollar2017
06/04/2018 12:24 pm
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Have you seen the PCGS TrueView pics thq? The coin looks completely different. Much more pleasing surface color.  |
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No I haven't seen them. The bidders in the auction saw the pictures Jerryc39 posted, and poor photography may have cost the seller a few hundred dollars. Or maybe honest photography, from the buyer's standpoint. They reveal flaws. Caveat emptor. With cross lighting, I can make coins look more pleasing. With normal top lighting (in hand) the date on this beat-up Half Dime is not visible:  With multidirectional lighting I could conceal the surface flaws that are evident with cross lighting and still show the date. So which is the honest view? It really does come down to how it looks in hand. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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06/04/2018 12:53 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Seems like a fair price. Do you think the buyer from January was hoping for a 58?! They likely had over $1300 in it and got $850 out of it?
Should be easy to get it re-stickered should you chose to do so. Congrats on your purchase.
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Pillar of the Community
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nice pickup
good price for the coin and the grade seems accurate and even if it pushed to 58 it would not be criminal
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I knew one of you sharks wouldn't be able to resist it.  I think you did ok. The eye appeal just isn't there for me and I wonder if the guy send it into CAC and it was rejected. That would be worst case scenario. They keep a record of each coin they decline. Let us know what it looks like inhand.  |
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hoping it looks like PCGS pics. Guilty of sharklike behavior also!
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Pillar of the Community
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Found out today Great Collections is getting it restickered with green bean for me before they ship it.
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Pillar of the Community
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Sweet! I send you my address for my cut.
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Well how does it look inhand?
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Posted 06/04/2018 11:57 am
