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<p>[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 454144, member: 4381"]the 43-D - genuinely impressive IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw a lot of nice Mercs today at Stanford. I don't know exactly what is going on with this coin? Is that toning on the front because it almost looks to me as if the front and back don't match. It looks like it is a weak strike on the front and the back is FSB? And something is weird with the 43 date. The observe has the smallest of nicks at about 10 O'Clock. The reverse is exceptional but a puzzle. Forgetting the real hit that the coin has on the lower part of the reads, it clearly seems to have full split bands unless the light is playing with the bottom. And yet, look how weak the reads are. They even seem to mesh together. You give this a MS-64. I think that is generous or the photo is lieing to me. The dent on the lower read IMO would keep it an MS63 or even a 62, bands or no bands[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 454144, member: 4381"]the 43-D - genuinely impressive IMO. I saw a lot of nice Mercs today at Stanford. I don't know exactly what is going on with this coin? Is that toning on the front because it almost looks to me as if the front and back don't match. It looks like it is a weak strike on the front and the back is FSB? And something is weird with the 43 date. The observe has the smallest of nicks at about 10 O'Clock. The reverse is exceptional but a puzzle. Forgetting the real hit that the coin has on the lower part of the reads, it clearly seems to have full split bands unless the light is playing with the bottom. And yet, look how weak the reads are. They even seem to mesh together. You give this a MS-64. I think that is generous or the photo is lieing to me. The dent on the lower read IMO would keep it an MS63 or even a 62, bands or no bands[/QUOTE]
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