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It looks au58 to me. This is a beautiful coin. The reverse is sharply struck and spectacular. The obverse looks slightly rubbed in the cheek (see green circle). Also several areas in the obverse look weakly struck in the hair, the ends of the locks and the tied hair (see red circles).  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
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May be cleaned, but that could be the lighting. Luster is funky. If nice in hand, MS-64 or so.
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i have to agree with NS on the slight wear on the cheek. there are also a couple spots on a couple of the highest leaves
a high AU58 and the reverse is quite nice
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These are often found with very weak strikes, I do see the cheek area though, I think it's more likely from contact with an old album acetate slide. I'm at Mint State but also possible details for the scuffing on the cheek, maybe MS63? Can't go higher due to strike weakness. Luster breaks would need to be seen in hand, if there are breaks on the cheek then an AU grade is likely if not it could go either MS62/62 and hit or miss on the details in my opinion.
NS little additional drawing helps a lot and is right in line with what I'm see as well. It's really up to the luster or lack of it on the cheek as to AU or MS.
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Looks nearly identical to my own MS63
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Looks ms to me. Maybe MS62 or 63
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I note that there is no hair detail behind Lib's ear. There could be a number of reasons for this.
Nevertheless,
rim beading shows up with sharp detail, and for this reason, I do not believe that this coin was weakly struck, and thus
I have to agree with the comments of numismatic student.
In addition to those comments, the very slight wear that we do see on the high points of the design (both sides), has long since patinated over. There is no sign of residual luster under the patination at those high points.
I also agree with the grading of
AU-58
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The luster just... looks off.
AU details, whizzed.
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It looks like significant wear and/or weakness in the hair behind ear, and above brow, and the bow in the ribbon. Possibly cleaned. Really not sure what kind of grade to assign.  |
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Look how strong liberty is that's what is throwing me of. I have MS coins where you can barely make out all the letters in liberty. The reverse is really nice too. Hard to see the surfaces on a photo.
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Maybe an AU coin with early die state
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