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Pillar of the Community
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Here's a fun one.. tried my best with pics.   Edited by WheatBack
02/20/2026 8:45 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow, this is from the first year of the Carson City Mint. $5 coins are half eagles. The eagles are the $10 coins. VG details cleaned. Looks like it was scrubbed with an abrasive brush. Still a cool coin from the earliest days of the CC Mint.
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.comEdited by numismatic student
02/20/2026 7:36 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 . It's a bummer, but it is what it is. Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3638 Posts |
Obviously detailed because of the cleaning. The obverse has a full rim, centrils on some of the stars, and six jewels on the hair band. I'm at G-06 obverse. The poor plucked chicken on the reverse lacks feathers on its left wing, which knocks this down a notch. G-04 reverse. I'm at net G-06 details.
ANY Carson City gold is wonderful, regardless of grade, and any first year Carson City coinage tells a wonderful story. Wouldn't you like to know the stories this one could tell?
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Bedrock of the Community
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net G6. will the pass her because its gold and a lower grade or does she pull a details designation for a cleaning? thats the question and I'm not familiar enough with lower grade gold to call that one
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Beautiful coin ... we can only imagine the stories this well circulated example serving our nations commerce could tell.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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2850 Posts |
This one is Good Details - Cleaned
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Posted 02/20/2026 8:35 pm
