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LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
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Can anyone please give me their opinions (positive or negative) on this quarter eagle? It is an 1843-O Large Date. What do you think the grade of it is? Also, I am having problems attaching the pictures within my post, but the files are attached. If anyone can post the pictures within the thread, that would be appreciated!! Thanks.
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,549 ✭✭✭✭✭
    imageimage
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Color is a bit funny, but that's probably the imaging. Grade guess, I'd go 50.
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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm thinking AU-50 maybe 53.
    I really like it.
    It looks to be the small date with a cool little cud on the rev.
    image
    Larry

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,427 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the picture, it looks like a nice original 53 that will clean up into a 58. I also like the cud.
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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm wrong. It's a large date. image
    Larry

  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Ldhair-- you're giving me a heart attack here.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    A very nice keeper, regardless of the grade. Love the way the copper washes across the field and that outrageous "O" right there in the middle of the whole thing...yeah baby!
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    What a great looking AU coin. A little crusty with some dirt. The way I like 'em.image

    The only problem is that the reverse is so much larger than the obverse.image
  • AlaBillAlaBill Posts: 467
    It's really hard from just the photographs, but....

    it looks AU53-55ish to me. Maybe up to 58 topside. Surfaces look to fairly original and unless it has been recolored, probably not dipped anytime recently. And from one of those Southern mints. Image that...the South had three (3) mints!
    ...AlaBill
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    The right eagle claw looks flat but I suppose that could be strike. The horizontal lines in the shield look to be slightly worn, but could be strike. My guess for grade is AU50-55.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What's going on at the top of the pic? Ex-jewelry?
  • RBB617RBB617 Posts: 498 ✭✭
    I have a very similar '43-o that I thought was an AU55, but PCGS felt otherwise and gave me an AU50. In hindsight (2 years), I think I was overzealous and they were tight. I'd give this a low AU53.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coin, AU53-55, teriffic cud

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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just a note on the crud-- was in my local coin shop monday morning and the dealer showed me a counterfeit $3 he bought last month. The most sublime crud I ever saw--the coin was run by PCGS at Long Bitsch and came back to the dealer as bullion at $53.

    Crud does not always tell the story--but it sure is nice on AU coins.image
    Have a nice day
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks 50 to me.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice coin. Looks like a high end XF-45.

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