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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll take a guess and say somewhere in the AU range.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
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What's up with the splotchy toning?
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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XF Det / scratches or graffiti.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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au details for me I guess its not in pcgs or ngc holder? on one of the pictures the toning look at one the face, but I know little of this. Back looks weird on first picture. Left side fields have different patina than right etc
Edited by Moniker
09/08/2025 1:34 pm
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Sorry, Here is a photo without the holder. It is not graded. I believe the light hitting the plastic was making it look different. Thank you!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To me, it looks like it is AU-53. It may just be the lighting, but the obverse coloration looks like it had been cleaned and is re-toning. The reverse looks original. It has some circulation dings, but I don't see anything excessive for the grade. The scratch in front of the nose and the scratch across the eagle's breast are the most distracting, but shouldn't be enough to detail the coin. To my eyes, the wing scratch is less distracting than the other two scratches. I'd be most concerned about whether the obverse was cleaned, and whether in hand it could be seen as market acceptable, because a cleaning might detail it. TPGs are pretty tough on grading for this date.
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU good chance the coin would details
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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58. Don't see wear, just lack of luster in the fields. Nice strike above ear and eagle's chest.
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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Thank you for the responses. I appreciate this community's kidness. I believe it is AU, but I have a problem with wear vs. poor strike recognition especially on 1878 coins. The 1887 S is a low production coin, but it seems like it is easily obtained in great grades. Does that make it more scrutinized in grading?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU55 A details grade would not surprise me.
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