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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 eye appeal, but I think I see touches of wear on the obverse leaves so AU-58 to me. Verdi care/acetone on the reverse green goo anyone? This is the more common large motto everybody... Good price anyways  Edited by mrwhatisit
05/25/2022 9:30 pm
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I'll be going against the rest of you here but I think it looks AU details cleaned to me. Those areas on the bottom left of the obverse where some tan discoloration is left around the foliage and arrow feathers just gives off that cleaned look to me and the color doesn't feel right either. A nice coin otherwise.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
Edited by CoinHunter27
05/25/2022 9:45 pm
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I agree with CoinHunter27 that it appears to have altered surfaces. Clearly circulated it almost looks like it's been re-colored.
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I'd go AU3 Details altered color. I'll get back on variety and more thoughts later.
"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/140440 |
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I'd say AU-55. Not sure if cleaned, but there's a lot of gunk in the crevices.
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first thought was cleaned.
I'm with westcoin AU53 details (cleaned)
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AU / cleaned, you can see crud still in the letters and around the shield and devices on the obverse. It might come back to life with some Blue Ribbon and careful debris removal.
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Agree with AU details. Visible crud still on the coin likely corrosion given the color.
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 AU Details, ED |
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