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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 351075, member: 2972&quot;]PCGS graded the coin FR-02.</p><p><br /></p><p>My subjective opinion on the coin:&nbsp; I can&#039;t say I disagree with the grade, but if there&#039;s such a thing as a choice FR2, this coin is it.&nbsp; For those of you who have tried to find a nice example in these grades, you&#039;ll have a good feeling for how difficult it is.&nbsp; As some have pointed out, most are very dark and porous and generally unappealing.&nbsp; This coin is anything but -- at least to me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While I would like an example with a readable date and reverse legend, my budget simply wouldn&#039;t allow me to afford a coin like that.&nbsp; As it is, this is the most expensive coin in my collection, and it was a tough decision to trade the liberty cap for it.&nbsp; However, I just thought that finding a replacement liberty cap would be far easier than finding a more attractive low-grade chain cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was purchased from Shawn Yancey, and he described it as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Talk about a perfect, smooth, choice FR2!&nbsp; Really smooth and attractive with half of LIBERTY, full bust, and maybe an imagination of the top of the date, full bold chain and fraction, about about half of the reverse legends, the S3 attribution is easy thanks to the part of LIBERTY that is visible and the clearly incused chain at the throat, an exceptional coin for a FR2 chain cent, most would call this one an easy AG3&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin I traded away, which some of you might recall I purchased from Doug Bird at Fun 2007:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/72699087/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/72699046/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the guesses and comments.&nbsp; Congrats to Jack for being the first one to guess correctly.&nbsp; Take care...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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