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63+ maybe 64. Multiple edge hits constrain this one a little. Beautiful!  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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Beautiful coin! Love the slight toning and chopmarks. MS-63
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what generation holder? didnt PCGS details chops for a lot of years?
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The holder is generation 6.0S 2015 to 2020. It appears prior to 2003 PCGS detailed all chop marks. NGC still does detail all chop marks. This example does have a straight grade with chop mark noted on the label. I lean toward the way PCGS does handle grading the chop marks.
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MS64. Images show blinding luster. I agree the rim hits could hold it back to MS63.
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thanks for the info! I didnt realize they had been grading them for almost 20 years. I could have sworn I heard that news just a couple years ago. i like that they grade them. chops are part of what makes Trade dollars cool to me. tpgs treating the most interesting Trade dollars as problem coins never sat right with me. im in at ms-63. its got the pop and luster to be higher but as others have said its got a few too many nicks and dings to go really high. |
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Beautiful coin. I'm in at MS63 as well.
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I would also go MS-63 on this one. Not your typically chop marked Trade dollar! |
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I'll go with MS-65. This one is blazing.
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 In grades of MS64 with chop marks there are only 18 coins for the entire Trade dollar series. Zero coins with chop marks graded MS65 and higher. |
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Zero coins with chop marks graded MS65 and higher. Very interesting. Thinking about it, if a coin has been chopmarked, you would think that would prohibit it from being called "uncirculated". |
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if a coin has been chopmarked, you would think that would prohibit it from being called "uncirculated". uncirculated and mint state are two different things. probably why we dont use that term. a mint state coin (MS) can be circulated so long as it doesn't show any signs of wear it would still grade on the MS scale |
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