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A 1885-O Morgan dollar picked up at the Nashua Coin Show. What grade do you give her?  |
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Images are too soft to show surface details clearly.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Unc details cleaned.
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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Unc details cleaned. Ouch. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Note that here the hair above the ear and the eagle's breast feathers are not rubbed flat. This looks like an unc coin to me but liberty has a halo as do the stars in the periphery. This is in contrast to the cartwheel luster we expect. The obverse looks unnaturally shiny.
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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Agreed, Unc details, cleaned.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice New Orleans strike. The halo may be indicative of a cleaning, but I can't tell from these photos. Could be 63/64.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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I agree the coin has an unnatural look, probably due to cleaning. Details are very sharp. I'll bet it stood out as exceptionally well struck.
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Could be the images, but agree with UNC Details Cleaned from what we can see
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63, dipped
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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UNC details
dipped and lightly polished
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