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Pillar of the Community
United States
1048 Posts |
Common date, but seems to have some eye appeal. Especially the reverse. Most of the few gold pieces I have are all nicked up compared to this one. What say you?   Edited by pristine2
09/01/2023 8:13 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
25241 Posts |
Slider. Beautiful coin with great eye appeal, but obverse dings (especially mustache, chin, and neck) as well as fields of both sides keep this from GEM. Still, a fantastic coin that I would be proud to own.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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09/01/2023 8:23 pm
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United States
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Yup, AU58.
Tad of wear on high points of hair, etc
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll say AU-58 as well. Super coin, very close to MS.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18665 Posts |
 on AU58. the reverse is quite nice. I've seen worse lower end MS so its a tough call and I'm having a hard time discerning any wear on the reverse so I'm not ruling MS out |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11888 Posts |
63/64 net 63+ for me.
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
 United States
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Surprise! I think the grade is netted from an MS63 obverse and an MS65+ reverse. The color is gorgeous in hand. Gold is always tougher to grade ...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Portugal
655 Posts |
Even here I have seen many $5 recently. Noticed that in the San Francisco ones the dies tended to have weaker detail. It may seem worn but it isn't.
The texture of the surface does not show wear in this one. This 1903-S already had better dies than earlier SF years I saw in hand.
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09/06/2023 8:25 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Missed that one for sure, but congrats!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5185 Posts |
I wanted to say MS65.
It seems gold is usually over graded.
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