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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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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think you over paid on this one. AU-55.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'll go with AU on this one.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU58. a lot of what we are seeing here is strike related as they are usually soft. all of their photos look flat so not calling cleaned until in hand
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU details. Absolutely devoid of luster in these photos.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Pillar of the Community
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AU58. a lot of what we are seeing here is strike related as they are usually soft. all of their photos look flat so not calling cleaned until in hand Ditto. "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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AU58. a lot of what we are seeing here is strike related as they are usually soft. all of their photos look flat so not calling cleaned until in hand I concur. Am seeing a touch of wear on Liberty's hair just above the ear. Reverse detail is nice for an O-mint Morgan, but the obverse has nothing going on that would make me want to acquire the coin. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks for all of your comments. What attracted me to this coin is a cheek that seems completely devoid of bagmarks. The left obverse field in front of the face is also remarkably clean. Since those are the focal points that everyone's eye goes to first, I thought this was an exceptional coin. It arrived on Monday and it is on my desk in queue to photograph.
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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the field disturbances on either side of the wings are the concern. they both look like someone was attempting to remove something and then cleaned the coins trying to make that area look a little better. this is not normal since that area is recessed and there are no marks on the surrounding devices that warrant that it occurred naturally in circulation
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Posted 12/08/2023 7:23 pm
