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Pillar of the Community
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A purchase yesterday that was an item on my bucket list. What would you grade her?   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Before I offer an amateur grading opinion, how is the luster? Love the die cracks!
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll say MS-64.
Errers and Varietys.
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Lovely example!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MS-64!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm good with MS65. Nice photos...
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Bedrock of the Community
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Clean fields and cheek. Lovely natural peripheral toning. Very frosty. A few scattered contact marks on the reverse.
The only minor distraction of note is on the breast feathers and it's not enough to merit any sort of grade deduction.
My grade MS64+
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Pillar of the Community
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Torn between 63/64....studied too long....64
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Pillar of the Community
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@bump, I don't have the coin in hand.
Thanks for the feedback and I agree with the grades you've suggested. I'm at a 64. This is a Redfield coin in the red Paramount holder. I have wanted one of these for a long time but never found one that was not terribly ugly or overpriced.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I love the Redfield coins quite a lot, but if you don't want to pay the markup you can find nicer coins in Red Paramount holders without the Redfield pedigree. I've got two such coins - both beautiful, but without the Redfield pedigree on the holder.
The storage condition of Lavere Redfield's coins left much to be desired, to say the least, but there are some absolute stunners as well.
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Nice coin I'll say it's at least a 64
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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64
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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Bedrock of the Community
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if the luster is broke across the cheek MS63+ if it's there MS64
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I'm at MS64 as well. The bag marks on the eagle's chest keep it from MS65 for me.
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Posted 11/07/2024 12:04 pm
