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Not quite sure what to do with this one.but you know the drill! Thanks as always.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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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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Pillar of the Community
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Mid-AU. Some nice color if you are into that.
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Bedrock of the Community
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the 95(O) are normally soft and weak. this one is quite a bit better than that. so i'l call it above average for strike. the reverse look higher AU. just a lot of chatter on the obv and areas of missing luster. the glare is not helping determine this. obv is going to hold it back. i'll call it AU55 with that reverse. toning is starting to move towards the black which imo is not desirable
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU-55 sounds about right.
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Pillar of the Community
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Lovely coin, but I think that dig on the face detracts. AU-50 would be my call.
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Pillar of the Community
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AU-50, too much obverse chatter for a higher grade in my opinion.
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Now for the outlier, ANACS said EF45. I think it has a slight wipe and probably comes back as cleaned. The real question is PCGS AU details > ANACS soapbox EF45?
Side note, this is the second soapbox EF which I think is AU details, did they net grade it down due to no details grade back then?
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Bedrock of the Community
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they had to net grade this one as there is just not enough wear to warrant a 45 grade
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Agree, 45 makes no sense.
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I would leave it in the soapbox. Straight graded to me is > higher grade details. Plus I think the older holder has some value.
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