Newp on the way from RCONH that I'm pretty psyched about.
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This comes courtesy of Jon at RCONH, and as usual I expect the coin to be even better than the image! Anyhoo, I'm pleased with it already.
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U.S. Nickels Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes
U.S. Dimes Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes
Besides this, I've got both varieties of 1883 and a 1912. And that's it. So, there's room for this set to grow (as I have most of the keys in my one-day-it'll-be-done Indian Head set.)
Thanks for the nice comments, everyone. RCONH is a very good provider of cool stuff, but please - don't beat me to all the good things. Thanks!
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even if cost is no object, suppose you've got a VF/XF set going, but all you've seen is cleaned/polished to one degree or another of a given date in the VF range. And then along comes "only" a VG/F of that coin, but it's super original, and matches perfectly with the ideal coins you have in VF/XF for color and surfaces. To me, that's a must have - and though I'd probably be done with that space at that point, should a super original VF+ ever show itself of it, you could then upgrade.
With his key dates, I think this is what jdimmick has done.
Nice piece. What's goin' on between the T and E in UNITED? It would've looked like a scratch to me, but the rim is apparently unaffected. My first thought is that there's some sort of strikethrough there?
...or maybe it's just the picture.
If it IS a strikethrough, that would be kind of interesting.
I'll check it, once I get it, to get a better look at the area between T and E - it does seem to be a strikethrough/planchet color of some kind, but doesn't seem like a scratch to me. Time will tell!
Edit to add, in staring at it for a while, I still think it's just some kind of streak-of-color stain, adds to it, for me! (the nightmare would have been if some well-meaning collector had tried to eraser it off for me, years ago!)
This reminds me of how disappointed I was with a super-pleasing looking 1895-S quarter in F+ I saw at a local dealer's a while ago - super-pleasing, that is, until I flipped it over and saw that this cherry coin had been erasered by the old owner, right at the mintmark, the better to see the "S". Arggggh!
Anyhoo, nice grading eye LordM!
Very nice.