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Lusterless but crisp - thoughts on grade please. So close to FBL save center ring.   |
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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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Mercs do not have FBL it would be FB for full bands. at minimum depending on the TPG the middle band must not be impinged so that rules out FB for this coin i think XF40 sounds right. just looking at the obv my first thought was the coin was overdipped an all the original surfaces have been removed. it just has that dull grey look you see with this, so I'm adding the details designation |
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Thx for clarifying FB/FBL, can confirm not dipped. It was a ground find and obverse was sand-encrusted. 30-second soak in distilled water dropped all sand but leaching chems/minerals must of ate all luster and gave it that dull grey appearance. Reverse was clear but looked off-white out of the ground. Coin saw brief distilled soak and 12 hours in Acetone is all.
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09/05/2023 4:39 pm
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I'm thinking the grade is encroaching on XF45.
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Looks like XF-45 sharpness, but the surfaces don't look original, probably from the environmental exposure. I'd say XF details—pretty nice ground find!
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t was a ground find and obverse was sand-encrusted being in the ground there is no way a TPG would straight grade this coin. they are going to see those surfaces and probably call it PMD |
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Quote:being in the ground there is no way a TPG would straight grade this coin. they are going to see those surfaces and probably call it PMD Still happy to throw it in a capsule and add to collection. Better in a capsule than lost forever in the ground - at least they are free so too speak. |
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Well, if you were going to dig up a Mercury dime from that age range, a 1927-D in good condition is an awesome find. Well done. =) |
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Still happy to throw it in a capsule and add to collection. Better in a capsule than lost forever in the ground - absolutely |
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Cool find and you basically saved that coin for future collectors. Well done!
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I have gobs of mercs in my junk stack and run into this type surface not often but more than occasionally. On good looking VF and XF common dates its hard to think they were cleaned at some point dipped etc but asking if XF and AU common date Merc coins were dipped is impossible we just have to go off our hunches and past experience. This thing pops man...I'm at AU on this one and the absence of luster on it like mentioned above be environmental?
AU-50 for me.
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Posted 09/05/2023 4:19 pm
