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Pillar of the Community
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Here are 3 Vermont VERMONTENSIUM Landscape coppers. All 3 are of the RR-8 variety. (R-4). Heritage briefly describes this variey as follows: "RR-8 was the sixth and final Landscape die variety, unless one counts the circulating counterfeit RR-5. The picturesque motifs then surrendered to generic large bust and seated effigy designs taken from British halfpence. RR-8 has a widely repunched 1 in the date" I am showing you 3 coins of this variety, all in approximately equivalent state of preservation. My question is, how would you compare them, and which do you overall prefer. Disclosure: one of them is mine (I guess you can guess which). (Pictures are from the Heritage archive) Thanks!    |
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Moderator
 United States
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I think I like the first one best,shows more detail. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
594 Posts |
I'm not at all familiar with these.. but .. very interesting. The clip on the first one is kinda' neat.
I really like the middle one both for it's color and it's detail. It's my number one pick.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First one for me. I love these designs.
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Bedrock of the Community
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United States
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I like the top two because the color looks natural. The bottom one has stronger details, but has stains, pits and the color is not natural.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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tough call between 1 and 2 for me. I think the eye appeal of #1 wins out
I'm going with that you own #2 just for the fun of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They all look amazing to me, mainly because I find the history of these intriguing. What famous people might have touched these along the way? But if I had to pick only one, it would be the first one.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very cool. I'm not savvy with these either. I'd have to go with #1, 2 being a close second.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The eye appeal of #1 wins it for me. Color and strike looks great on that example. All beautiful coins though.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Bedrock of the Community
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I will also pick door #1.  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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Nice looking coins. I prefer #2 and #3 surfaces are not natural looking.
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Pillar of the Community
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I prefer #3  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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GERMANICVS I'm assuming by your comment that you own #3
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#3 looks cleaned to me,anyone else think so? John1 |
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panzaldi, yes this coin is in my collection. Quote:
#3 looks cleaned to me,anyone else think so?
John1 John, I can confirm this coin has definitely not been cleaned. Cleaned coppers look quite different - they show a reddish hue. My picture is just awful, not showing the true color. I'll try to take better pictures. What I like about is exactly that: the smooth surfaces and appealing color, quite unusual with Vermont Landscape coppers. Edited by GERMANICVS
04/05/2022 3:09 pm
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