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Pillar of the Community
United States
1048 Posts |
I paid the wife-angering sum of $1440, resulting in a 30-day ban on coin purchases. Was it worth it? The obverse pic doesn't do it justice, but the TrueView pic is dishonestly flattering, so I won't post it.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I'll say PR-65. I never tell my wife what I pay for stuff, and she doesn't want to know.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
25148 Posts |
Definitely worth it, pristine!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1656 Posts |
Good coin. Now buy her something nice.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11880 Posts |
PF66 looks cameo in the reverse. Nice coin. Been in the doghouse. Sometimes it was worth it, more often it was not. Yours is certainly better than this overgraded example at PF69 star cameo with obverse scratches. https://coins.ha.com/itm/barber-qua...ption-071515When I was scrolling down I was hoping to find an S mintmark.  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
Portugal
655 Posts |
I see what you mean. It looks to me better that that from the auction. And prices in auctions I have seen are pricing the grade, not the coin. Like many buyers are blind investors not collectors.
May be good for collectors who pay attention.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5239 Posts |
A 30 day ban is not so bad...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1143 Posts |
Thirty days goes by pretty fast at my age. Going with PR-65 on this lovely example.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1479 Posts |
wow now thats a lovely specimen PRF65 all the day long
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
25148 Posts |
As long as the 30 day ban applies to only coin buying, you really shouldn't complain pristine. It could be far worse.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5178 Posts |
I'm in the PR65 camp.
Lovely coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4680 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9792 Posts |
PR66 to my eyes. Better than a 65 I think.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18660 Posts |
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A 30 day ban is not so bad...  PF66...nice |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1094 Posts |
PF66 I working on my 2 year ban.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
Beautiful coin and great photography.
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Posted 09/06/2023 5:41 pm
