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Recent pickup. Holed. What details grade would you give it?   swcoin.ecrater.com
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AU-50 details. Most of them saw only limited circulation with the earlier ones actually being used for the intended purpose.
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AU details, holed.
Errers and Varietys.
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AU-50 details. Most of them saw only limited circulation with the earlier ones actually being used for the intended purpose. I know. The earlier dated pieces saw much more use in commerce. This particular one, BG-111, had a few found in the gold of the S.S. Central America. Pretty cool! swcoin.ecrater.com
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Why does it look brown and not yellow? Other examples of this issue appear to be bright yellow even in lower grades. Also the face of liberty and the obverse fields appear to show indications of corrosion. Isn't that unusual for a gold coin?
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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Taken under low light conditions. Zero corrosion. I will take some better pics.
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This close up of the face and neck show lots of raised bumps and metal displacement. How would this have occurred on a struck metal coin?  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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