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<p>[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 3047064, member: 19250"]As a h 10 collector to be honest I wouldn't pay Au. Money for this specimen. To my eyes it is xf 45 at best. I do agree with Mike strike is weak,thus making the coin less eye apealing. As to its skin and color again that is subjective to the buyers taste.some may like others may not....and again these are small coins sometimes hard to see details in both the plus and minus colum.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a Valentine #1 small heavy ,compact ,high date,curved top to 5 ,6 course.185 especially compact tip of shield points to 1 .A peculiarity of the coins of this date is that the denticulations of the milling are not well struck up. Rev. Medium lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other reason I wouldn't be paying Au. Money is most dealers here that I buy from sell to me at grey sheet plus 10% some even less. The only time I pay more is to dealers here or on line on had to have specimens,varieties that I know are very rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 3047064, member: 19250"]As a h 10 collector to be honest I wouldn't pay Au. Money for this specimen. To my eyes it is xf 45 at best. I do agree with Mike strike is weak,thus making the coin less eye apealing. As to its skin and color again that is subjective to the buyers taste.some may like others may not....and again these are small coins sometimes hard to see details in both the plus and minus colum. This is a Valentine #1 small heavy ,compact ,high date,curved top to 5 ,6 course.185 especially compact tip of shield points to 1 .A peculiarity of the coins of this date is that the denticulations of the milling are not well struck up. Rev. Medium lettering. One other reason I wouldn't be paying Au. Money is most dealers here that I buy from sell to me at grey sheet plus 10% some even less. The only time I pay more is to dealers here or on line on had to have specimens,varieties that I know are very rare.[/QUOTE]
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