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Although under high magnification, the bands appear to be separated, there is nevertheless obvious wear in these areas. For Fully Split Bands, the top of the bands should appear like the top of the old style loaf of bread, without any wear. Therefore, not FSB unfortunately. Die crack features add more interest. The working dies that produced this coin were near the end of their life. Design detail in areas less exposed to wear are a tad fuzzy, and there is metal flow on the outer edges of the lettering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The master dies for Mercury dimes in 1919 were reasonably fresh, and so split bands on early date Mercury dimes in MS-60 or above are not so scarce, if the working dies that struck the coins are also reasonably fresh. |
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I'll say AU-58 on this. Interesting die cracks.
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Hmm , I don't see any die cracks but I do see scratches on both sides along with a nasty rim hit on reverse . Nowhere near FSB or FB . AU-58 possibly details .  |
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58fsb
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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AU58. I agree not even close to FSB.
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AU 58, no FB, likely Details. Look to be a decent number of diagonal hairlines on the obverse (coupe be the pics).
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