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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2516779, member: 8959&quot;]I took your advice (thanks to all of you, and specially beef1020) and tried to familiarize myself with the striking characteristics of this issue, Ryder-14.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, Heritage Archives has a number of examples of the type.</p><p>Here is an AU50, an EF45, and an VF35.</p><p><br /></p><p>From top to bottom:</p><p>Ryder-14, AU50</p><p>Ryder 14, EF45</p><p>Ryder 14, VF35</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: Heritage Archives</p><p>[ATTACH=full]536102[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]536103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]536104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]536105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]536106[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]536107[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What I have concluded is that my coin is generally struck more weakly than comparable examples, specially the obverse. It compensates with a very appealing planchet devoid of any faults and the peripheral devices (legends) show very little wear as of a barely circulated coin.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Taking ll of this together I am (tentatively) assigning my example the grade of VF35 to EF40.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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