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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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I'll say MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
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Neck is beat up and just below the eye. MS-63
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Maybe just the photos.. not much luster, Au-58
I've been collecting for a couple years... Favorite Coin's are Standing Liberty quarters, Working on my type set | Coffee, Corvettes, Coins & the CCF what could be better? |
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63 - is the entire coin toned over?
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Isn't the 1904-O Morgan dollar one of those coins that's much more common in Uncirculated than in circulated condition. Wasn't it extremely rare until lots of bags of them were discovered in the 1960s? |
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1904-O was a key date until the release of the Treasury vault bags in the 60s, yes. Quite a few were PL/DMPL, too, which suggests that they went straight into the bags shortly after minting (see also the 1898-O and 1899-O coins.)
The New Orleans mint was still having quality control issues (possibly due to organized crime corruption) and die life was abysmal, resulting in some anomalies unique to the date such as DMPL coins with heavily clashed dies and die cracks. It's now one of the most common dates in PL/DMPL apart from the 1878-1881 San Francisco coins; among New Orleans coins, 1898-O and 1899-O also have a lot of PL/DMPL survivors.
Compare the effect that this had on the price of 1904-O vs. the much scarcer 1903-O of which there was no large hoard of Uncirculated coins. 1903-O is still a scarce date in any grade and very scarce in lower circulated grades.
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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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Looks overdipped.
Going to stay with MS63.
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I'm still at MS-63 on this one.
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I am still at a 62 on this one for the lack of luster. Could possibly even details, probably overdipped at some point
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I'm terrible at picture taking. One more attempt. I think these are marginally clearer. Definitely not as well struck at the high points.   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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Cool coin. It is a VAM-32 "G" clash if interested. Has the "trigger" clash at the neck and interesting die polishing remnants on the reverse.
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