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    coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: CoinZip

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    The Coinzip seal of approval? So far, so good!
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    BarberianBarberian Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some nice secondary album toning, but I don't care for the hairlines and dipping in the past. To each his own.
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    YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool toning, but the hairlines bother me.
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
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    winkywinky Posts: 1,671
    Not all there.
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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Too many eye distractions for me.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty enough to crack out and put in the Dansco 7070. image



    Okay, maybe I wouldn't.

    Or maybe I would.
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    HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, a good coin for the album. It's much nicer than my 1817 hole filler. I like it.
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    BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks cleaned and retoned. I'll guess XF40.
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    TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    All the marks makes it too busy to look at for me, but the blue/green toning always looks nice on CBH's.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What everybody else said. The slight scuffiness detracts a little, but the album toning looks good.



    While I don't head-over-heels love this coin, I do like it.



    In balance, I personally would rate its eye appeal a little better than neutral and in the slightly positive range overall.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    I like the coin, but I don't collect the series. I see lots of die clashes which add interest.


    At the ANA Summer Seminars I heard an expression which could be applied to this coin:





    "Eye Appeal adds a little and forgives a lot."


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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a decent coin with some album toning after a dip and many some cleaning. The size of the photo makes the marks look more important than they probably are when you see the piece in-hand.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    UMCaneUMCane Posts: 213 ✭✭✭
    IMHO...Too much going on, and too many hands tried to improve.



    If you are dropping serious money on a coin, get what you want and never compromise

    "Just because you were born on 3rd base doesn't mean you hit a triple"

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    nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BustHalfBrian
    Looks cleaned and retoned. I'll guess XF40.


    +1 What Brian says
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice coin but not for me. jmo
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    kazkaz Posts: 9,355 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To me, it looks dipped or cleaned and album toned. When I shrank the image down to about the size of a silver dollar it looked very attractive.
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    opportunityopportunity Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm surprised no one has mentioned the variety!

    Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.

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    HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    O.k., opportunity, since you brought it up. What is the variety?
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    Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 12,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not great as capped bust halves go, but I'm assuming it's real
    value is in a high R rating variety.

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    LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Hydrant

    O.k., opportunity, since you brought it up. What is the variety?






    Looks like an O-108 with the die cracks at S8 & S11.

    Overton calls it R.4



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    MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: LoveMyLiberty
    Originally posted by: Hydrant
    O.k., opportunity, since you brought it up. What is the variety?



    Looks like an O-108 with the die cracks at S8 & S11.
    Overton calls it R.4



    Are R4 coins even worth a poop over guide prices these days?image

    Derek

    EAC 6024
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    Here is my info page for O-108

    I consider this a tough R4
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    BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Moldnut
    Originally posted by: LoveMyLiberty
    Originally posted by: Hydrant
    O.k., opportunity, since you brought it up. What is the variety?



    Looks like an O-108 with the die cracks at S8 & S11.
    Overton calls it R.4



    Are R4 coins even worth a poop over guide prices these days?image



    Not really. Some R4+ non-Redbook Oveton varieties sell for slight premiums but usually only because they exhibit dramatic die cracks, clashes, lapping, etc. Two I can think of off hand are 1808 O.110a and 1818 O.115a.
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    I probably would not buy it but I kind of like it.
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    TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is that a scratch between star 7 and the cap?

    Frank

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