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Roosevelt Dimes can be pretty. Is this one ?

FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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While you are looking put a grade on it. The coin has real nice luster coming through the deep thick tone. No slide marks period.

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Ken

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, IMHO.
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    tough to grade from the image sir, but i can tell that is a nice nice coin...

    toned Roosies are addictive, and you sir, have fallen to that plague!
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  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    I don't like it, but the reverse likely is nice; I'm guessing the gold tone is more striking in person. 65 or 66. Can't judge the torch from that photo.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like that coin Ken.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>tough to grade from the image sir, but i can tell that is a nice nice coin...

    toned Roosies are addictive, and you sir, have fallen to that plague! >>



    Who ME !!!!

    Lucy it is Nice. My darn photos wash out the color. Instead of the gold look that the reverse has it Orange with Deep Purple at the rims. It would be completely Killer if the colors were more evenly distributed. The verticle torch lines are somewhat weak. The obverse is Deep Purple with some blue. Again the tone is a little too splotchy and would look better if it was more even.

    I think the coin is one of those Love or Hate situations. It deserves a shot at PCGS one of these days just because it is so original.

    Ken
  • poptopsRuspoptopsRus Posts: 1,522
    I bet that dime is pretty sexy in person
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Lucy it is Nice. My darn photos wash out the color. Instead of the gold look that the reverse has it Orange with Deep Purple at the rims. It would be completely Killer if the colors were more evenly distributed. The verticle torch lines are somewhat weak. The obverse is Deep Purple with some blue. Again the tone is a little too splotchy and would look better if it was more even. >>

    It can be tough, and I suck at coin photography as it is. I posted my '55-P here last week and I don't think the pictures I took do it justice. I wish I knew how to get the lighting right to get the color to pop like it should, but as I said, I suck.
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Not my cup of tea. Speaking of which, maybe it was soaking in a cup of tea to get that color....
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    It looks like the bands are full in the image. If you send it in, let us know if it makes FB.

    I'll go 65fb.

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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    To each his own......image
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kinda looks like leukoderma! (Not implying that those who suffer from the cutaneous pigmentation malaise are unattractive people.)
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  • EJBEJB Posts: 640
    ..........It's ugly but at least it did some thing.......Mine are all plain white.................image
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like I am into UGLY coins according to the majority of the responses......image

    Ken
  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    I have several early Roosies that are nicely toned like yours. If anyone is interested in these I will be glad to give them up. Im not into toned coins.
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not crazy about this one Ken, Too splocthy for me. Grade wise I'm not sure 65 or 66. Maybe bands or not. Who cares on bands. It's the overall strike that counts. I won't pay for the bands unless they are free.

    Jon

  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    Not my cup of tea at all....

    He looks like he has a bad skin condition.....
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  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,547 ✭✭✭
    Looks FB. The luster will determine the grade on this one. I like it.
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  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭
    I don't think PCGS would give it FB based on the picture....PC is being really tough on bands. NGC might give it FT though......
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I don't like it personally.
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