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Pillar of the Community
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Anyone want to play grade the dime? Found by my mother in-law She gave it to me free......   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think this dime is sitting right on the F-VF line.
I'll go with F-15.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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VF-20  |
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United States
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I'm thinking more F-15. I think "Liberty" needs to be sharper for it to go to VF. The "B" and "E" appear to have some weakness.
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I'm also going to say F-15.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd say this coin is solid for VF-20. LIBERTY is complete and the edges of the band are mostly visible. It has nice, original color and a crusty look; just what you want to see on an unmolested 106-year-old silver coin!
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United States
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I would say that it is F.
B looks looks to be incomplete and the E barely shows.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
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I like the idea of VF20 but my Photograde says half way between F and VF so the majority rules with F15 either way its in surprisingly good condition for its age. I suspect it has spent a fair amount of time out of circulation.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Can see all LIBERTY letters plus one line above...coin cleaned and slight damage NET grade  F-12    Edited by atlashealth
10/03/2008 2:28 pm
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I can see how this one's bouncing around the grading spectrum...
The coin is at least F-12... Were it my coin and I were selling it that's the grade where I'd start bidding at. If someone thought it was a VF then so be it... it very well might be.
I could see where someone could convince themselves that even though the E in Liberty is weaker than the rest of the letters that because all letters other than E are visible and evenly worn that this coin falls in the VF-20 range.
If someone were really stretching... I can see where they might be able to go a little higher as if you look close enough you can see (or make yourself see) both edges of the headband. However those edges are obviously not distinct so there's no way it could nudge up into EF range. Which means even the most liberal grader couldn't grade this any higher than a VF-30.
I'd be happy with it regardless... It's an excellent example of a great coin that saw quite a bit of circulation...
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Posted 10/02/2008 11:29 am
