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Well, you don't see this every day! I'll say AU-50, possibly 53.
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au55. congrats!  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.comEdited by numismatic student
07/11/2022 10:03 pm
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wow nice I will say AU-53
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I'll go with AU50. Nice looking coin, congrats!
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A rarity to own, congrats! First year of CC is a big one.
This one has little to no luster remaining, and a cleaning with visible hairlines. I will say AU-53 Details or AU-50 straight. Toss-up whether this has a straight grade or details.
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Maybe its just the pics but the surfaces look ugly.
Probably some prooflike reflectivity visible in the hand.
AU50.
Watch your top knot
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AU Details Cleaned - The coin does not belong in a straight holder as all the remaining luster has been cleaned off the example.
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AU-53 but not sure they gave it a straight grade. Couple marks that look odd, one on the shield and one on the eagle's neck. They look like punch marks?
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AU-53 but not sure they gave it a straight grade. Couple marks that look odd, one on the shield and one on the eagle's neck. They look like punch marks? Looks like a possible patched hole. Almost looks perfectly aligned on both sides. Edit: fixing grammer lol Edited by Wrekkdd
07/12/2022 08:59 am
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Couple marks that look odd, one on the shield and one on the eagle's neck. They look like punch marks? good catch IGE. I tend to agree. when you see a consistent mark like this in the exact position on both sides theres a good chance something happened here and if you look close at the reverse mark its much brighter than the rest of the coin. i think the coin may have been repaired AU details ( PMD). still a nice coin but maybe the reason you got it for an insanely low price |
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I am confident the coin has not been holed, rather just incidental damage. An overlay image shows the two areas of damage do not correspond to each other very closely at all. I took some close ups of the areas in question to help discern whether these cross the "damage" threshold.   |
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With the close upset I agree not holed, the damage does look close on each side bit doesn't match. It does look like more modern damage
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AU-53, but looks to have a old cleaning.
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new photos put a "hole" in our theory, now the question is since its PMD and in a prominent location will the coin grade straight. does look like an old cleaning but it looks acceptable and would not details the coin AU53 and I'm hoping she grades straight. |
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