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Valued Member
United States
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I'm buying this for $80 what do y'all think the grade is, I know because of the graffiti it hurts it, but it looks like it has somebody's name and a date of 1895 on it.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks like a nice high XF or low AU coin priced right with the graffiti. I like the coin details. Coin will have a limited audience of buyers due to the damage but it seems priced well. Enjoy.  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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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1273 Posts |
Shame about graffiti. It really ruins a coin for me completely. So it would be details, but judging from the wear it looks higher than VF30 like it says on the card. I'm looking at a graded XF40 now and it is in worse shape than yours. Although I don't think it will be much higher, maybe XF details - horrible graffiti.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18673 Posts |
looks like a flat strike on both sides. I think it could make VF35 details
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I'd say solid EF sharpness, perhaps better.
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Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
An EF Bust Half , cleaned , as many have been . The graffiti is painful .  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3848 Posts |
XF-45 Details cleaned/graffiti
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4680 Posts |
XF40 Details, cleaned, graffiti. A cleaning I could possibly live with, but I personally could not look past graffiti that obvious.
Edited by Ty2020b
04/16/2022 3:34 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3655 Posts |
I'm in the EF Details camp. There is some luster visible around the second star. The graffiti is tough. It looks like the coin didn't circulate after the graffiti, because it is deep, reflective, and sharply scratched.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36782 Posts |
EF-40 details, scratched/cleaned.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1094 Posts |
I would save up my $ to buy one without the graffiti. That is brutal.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Buying this is something I'll bet you'll come to regret.
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Valued Member
 United States
421 Posts |
Here is something comparable that sold and it's dug a little deeper into the coin, and this one is a little more worn   Edited by Matthew23
04/30/2022 12:25 pm
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