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Please provide a grade opinion on this 1843-O dime.
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Hi,
Please provide a grade opinion on this 1843-O dime.
Regards,
Ken
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XF40 and a nice coin!
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XF45
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
Looks like some muted luster hidden in there, I agree with XF 45.
It's not a high-resolution image but I wouldn't be overly shocked if it was XF45+ to AU50. Nice coin.
XF deets imho.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
In in the xf 45 camp as well
AU53
Why details?
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
XF
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45.
45 looks good.
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50
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45 is my thought as well. Details? No, it does appear to be dipped a while back.
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XF40
I would surely want more pics with different lighting before purchase
I believe i am seeing some hairlines.
Here is a pic of one i sent in that graded XF45
The price spread between a 45 and 50 is 6K if i remember correctly..
I wouldn’t be surprised at AU50 but XF45+
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I'm with the 45 crowd
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It came back AU details - code 94 -Altered surface means things like thumbed, puddied, tooled etc...
"thumbing" is rubbing your thumb against your nose to collect skin oils, then wiping your thumb across the coin. The oils will mask small hairlines (and I believe they will darken over time). I realize that a picture is limiting for numismatists to assess a coin.
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This is a very nice coin and rare, in a non-details grade!!!!
Just my gut. Looks like it had issues, then was worked to kind of hide the issues, and has kinda turned a touch in the intervening years. That's my read on the surfaces. Just really wonky looking. Wouldn't shock me if it straight graded due to rarity but I'd bag it if those images are representative of the in-hand feel. Caveat emptor of course, those pics are... not great.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
The obv is definitely the weaker side.
XF Details, Cleaned
I had this coin since 1987 and slabbed it in 2015.
Late, I thought 40 .
Funny thing is when I see these GTG's, I almost never consider detail(s) factors, always assumed it was graded.
prob just me.
I like it although it appears to me to have been cleaned to some degree due to past environmental issues.
XF45. But I'm not great at grading.