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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 6225654, member: 78244&quot;]I will buy all the EF45s that look like that. That coin has never been an EF, unless your scale tops out at EF like ancients do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see booming luster on both sides, a mostly-full strike. There appear to be touches of wear on the hair around the ear, the nose, and the chin, but they may be strike related. There are several rim hits that were apparently ignored.</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPGs have decided that luster is king on the early large cents, and they will ignore slight wear on lustrous large cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was a selecting collector who could afford coins at this price level, would I pay MS-65 money for it? Maybe, if the “wear” turns out to be strike weakness and the field luster is not at all impaired. The rim hots would be bothersome though. I’d probably be a buyer at closer to MS-63 money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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