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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 2071103, member: 24544&quot;]Be very careful grading 94&#039;s from pictures grade websites.&nbsp; Each die was hand engraved with significant differences in details.&nbsp; The approach you are taking here, i can see berries and the ear, just does not work well on these as some varieties show much more detail when worn then other varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that said, it is an S50, the reverse die is the office boy reverse due to the less then stellar spacing.&nbsp; Unfortunately for collector&#039;s, this haphazardly done reverse die was quite long lived and outlasted six obverse dies.&nbsp; The obverse die diagnostics are basically the date, the 4 touches the bust while the 1 is clear of the hair.&nbsp; No question it&#039;s an S50.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moving on to value get&#039;s harder.&nbsp; This is a rare variety, I think current estimates are in the 30-35 range with the tenth best coin grading around vg10, so it&#039;s rare and very very rare in nice condition.&nbsp; With that said, I would grade this coin pretty similar to the one sold in the Goldberg auction.&nbsp; The S50 has very strong hair details when struck.&nbsp; With this level of corrosion grading can be difficult, but I would put the sharpness grade in the same 15 range, maybe 20, by EAC standards, and I would net it to 6 for corrosion.</p><p><br /></p><p>So 15 net 6 for corrosion.&nbsp; The last price guides I saw put a scudzy S50 in g5 at 450 and a scudzy s50 in vg8 at 900.&nbsp; I think that is a reasonable range for this coin.&nbsp; I would not worry about the holder, most of the people who are going to be interested in this coin, variety collectors, would just crack it out anyway.&nbsp; In fact, if it were my coin I would crack it out and leave it raw.&nbsp; One of the nice aspects of early copper collecting is that counterfeiters have not gotten die marriages correct, so a coin like yours has almost 0% chance of being counterfeit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, nice coin, a very tough variety to find and this condition is representative of this variety when priced below the &#039;I could have bought a car&#039; level.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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