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Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by H8_modern, Feb 25, 2011.

  1. kSigSteve

    kSigSteve Active Member

    Can you take a stab at the estimated grade for the 1870? I saw it as an AU. Dealer didn’t have a grade marked but I took it home for VF money. It seems over dipped and I am also having trouble seeing the wear. I believe the reverse top left is a weak strike in that area.
     
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  3. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    Poster child for an Au/Bu h-10 album toned then over dipped .
    Very hard to get a read on this one using the images.....but heck I give vf money any day on a coin like this.
    This also may of been whizzed to remove the tarnish.
     
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  4. kSigSteve

    kSigSteve Active Member

    Thank you sir. I felt it was a great pick up and when he knocked $18 off the price it was a done deal. Maybe because it was cleaned. Here are some lousy pics through the 2x2 that I snapped in daylight when I left the shop. I now believe the surfaces to have been altered.
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  5. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    I’m calling it au 53-55 but definitely cleaned or dipped and retoning pretty but it’ll never straight grade
     
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  6. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator

    A scarce 1906-O $10 Lib in AU . . .

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    A near gem BU 1929-D SLQ with interior cud under drapery below Miss Liberty's right arm. Possibly the best known of this variety . . .

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    A very scarce 1899-O $10.00 Lib in low UNC . . .

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    A very scarce 1881-S $20.00 Lib in mint state . . .

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  7. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    I am at that point in collecting these that detail coins no longer concern me.
    Now understand that I don't go looking for them....but at some point due to mintages and survival rates one can no longer be picky.
    You very seldom find a mint mark or semi key in a dealers case when you do you buy it and then figure it out later.
     
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  8. dwhiz

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  9. RonSanderson

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  10. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    that's a nice quarter. I just bought this - had to have a civil war era Philly mint coin. PCGS pop of only 12 and and NGC pop of 1! Odd. It would be a pretty ordinary thing if it weren't minted in Philly right in the middle of the war. AU50, all around pretty good strike. Will it CAC? (will find out someday)

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  11. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    A beautiful seated!
     
  12. Jon Brand

    Jon Brand Well-Known Member

    Not sure if I showed these on this forum or not but they are still farily recent purchased the last few months so ill show em again.

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  13. Jon Brand

    Jon Brand Well-Known Member

  14. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    Wow, nice toning!
     
  15. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    Anyone know where the thread for "post your latest U.S. Classic Commemoratives" is? I can't seem to find it this morning... need... caffeine...

    Over-paid based on grade, but I liked the toning.

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  16. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    The toning makes the reverse look like a dark stormy sea, very nice!
     
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  17. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator

    Maybe so . . . but it looks to me like it was probably a good decision.
     
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  18. CoinBreaux

    CoinBreaux Well-Known Member

    Here are the seller’s photos.

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  19. RonSanderson

    RonSanderson Supporter! Supporter

    Okay, okay, I know I just posted this yesterday. The more I looked at the animation the less I was satisfied.

    So I devised a new technique. I put the entire camera setup on a turntable (aka Lazy Susan) and rotated the camera and coin as a unit under the stationary lights.

    In spite of appearances, the coin never moves relative to the camera, and there is no difference from one frame of the animation to the next. The angle to the lights does change from shot to shot, so the shadows move. The light may strike different parts of the contour of the design, so the points that are highlighted and reflective do shift across the coin. It is enough to convince my brain that the coin is moving, even though I already know it isn't.

    This is more representative of the luster.

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    I provided more information in post #177 in "Post your coin photography set-up".
     
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  20. H8_modern

    H8_modern Attracted to small round-ish art

    I should get better at taking coin pics. I’ve said this before but this should be my last coin purchase of the year and as Larry Miller said “and this time, I mean it.” I might have to get this one graded.
    Coin is more chocolate brown than the pictures.

    1838 large cent N-10
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    From the Ted Naftzger auction catalog, middle dates - using the die crack to ID the Newcomb number
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  21. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Great coin! I love the '3' font. We don't have style like this anymore.:(
     
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