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Bedrock of the Community
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the coin appears to be a proof with that strike and fields. if this is truly a CSA stamp then winner winner chicken dinner. either way its a beautiful coin. I'm assuming the coin is not slabbed which is interesting that it would have survived this long and not. will you be getting it attributed?
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Bedrock of the Community
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The coin is slabbed.
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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I was not aware coins struck from another die pair could be traced to this period. Me either. I thought the crack at the head was the key diagnostic. Interesting. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Sure looks like a Prooflike example though PCGS has only graded a single one. Stack's/Bowers has a details AU coming up for sale: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...cleaned-PCGSI can't really get a good grade with photos like this, from what I do see I'm only guessing, MS64 and should be PL but it doesn't match the lone PCGS 63PL if it's raw then 64 PL or NGC? They have 4 MS64PL listed. Better photos I could go a lot higher, but I think it's a PL from what I see. NGC also has a good write up on the CSA struck 1861-O half dollars in their US Coin Explorer: https://www.NGCcoin.com/coin-explor...61-o-50c-ms/"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
11/22/2021 01:38 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Westcoin, have you read the article I linked in the first post?
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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is the first and only specimen strike 1861-O half dollar that ICG has graded. I think the coin looks like a proof with the cream colored surface as illustrated below. There is one NGC PF63 graded 1861-O Branch Mint Proof. It was owned by the DuPont family of Delaware and on display at the Louisina State Museum at the old New Orleans Mint facility. There are also about 4 or 5 NGC graded Specimen strike 1861-O halves that we purportedly minted at the special striking session celebrating Jefferson Davis ascent to President of the Confederacy. The coin was advertised as a blue-toned coin and it arrived not as advertised so I sent it back to the seller. The DuPont Proof63 is being offered for $600,000 and an NGC SP63 example is currently offered for $200,000 so if this is indeed one of the proofs from that striking, I may have made a big mistake.    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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