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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USMoneylover, post: 1123049, member: 26802&quot;]This is a good assessment of the coin here until you confuse the weak strike with wear.&nbsp; This is a very tricky coin in regards to grade, especially if you aren&#039;t familiar with this particular varieties tendency to be weakly struck in the central obverse and reverse.&nbsp; On the open collar coins (1809-1828) you will typically find flat stars, flat knuckles on the eagle and weak rims (more so on the obverse).&nbsp; When I assessed this one for a grade here&#039;s what I looked at...</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: I looked at the wear on the cap, the wear on the drapery at the bosom (which can also be weakly struck) the details shown in the lower hair curl, the rim and the star centers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: The biggest factor here for me was around the edge of the wings.&nbsp; If you have the ANA grading book, take a look at the xf pictures wear pattern on the wings... you will see they&#039;re pretty similar to this coin.&nbsp; I also took into account the rims, and also the fairly strong details on the arrows heads and fletching (leaves?).</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts after all this was the coin was a minimum vf35 but likely an xf40 and possibly as high as an xf45.&nbsp; Most importantly, and as some others pointed out, a nice original coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me finish by saying that as you know grading is subjective, and this is just my opinion.&nbsp; I don&#039;t claim to be an expert or anything like that, just trying to shed a little light on federal coins and the problems that plagued the minting processes of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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