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1925 Stone Mountain Half Dollar. Unfortunately, it has some pitting   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Thanks for sharing your coin. Not ignoring your request for a grade, just have no idea how to grade these. Someone knowledgeable will come along.  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
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AU-53 details, environmental damage.
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If there is pitting, then that would warrant a details grade. From the fuzzy photos, it just looks like spotty toning. Corroded and pitted silver halves are seldom seem. It would've been most likely a type of acid to eat at the coin.
Grade wise, I see AU-53, typical strike for this issue.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Close-up of the lower reverse would help.
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is a website for more info on these coins. I have several of these and I think the quality has suffered because so many were minted -- Though yours does look like mostly toning [as was mentioned]. http://stonemountainhalf.com/thecoin.htmlEdited by CentSation
06/25/2022 11:25 pm
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Actually it does not appear to be pitted. Here is the picture you requested Coinfrog.  |
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Slight rub is visible on the high points. I'm at AU55, I don't see evidence of pitting but plenty of spotty toning.
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I'd net it out around EF. Possibly a bit of environmental damage but I don't think it's serious.
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I'd go for an EF as well (maybe an XF, but no higher.
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Posted 06/25/2022 6:44 pm
