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mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭✭✭
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These aren't really my area of expertise. I'm happy calling this a Gem, but beyond that? 66 is my gut sense, but what do we think? I got this coin basically for free, so I'm happy one way or the other.

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Edit: Luster is satiny and strong. Not heart-stopping, but better than average.
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    braddickbraddick Posts: 25,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Luster? MS66+

    Flat? MS65, at best. JMHO
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    looks pretty nick free, but kinda mushy...........64 or 65
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    fcfc Posts: 12,805 ✭✭✭
    without an average or above strike i would be hesitant to say 66.
    i have no problem guessing 65 though.

    super strong luster could give it a bump... i just do not know the series
    well enough to say.

    lets see what others think.
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    DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    66 based on the pic.
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    JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭
    With a weak strike I would say ms64. jmho
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    SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    All I know is that is a great 65. I would bid on that critter, if it goes on ebay post a link. I cant see enough of it from the image ms64-66.
    not worth slabbing but a very nice example.
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    collegecoincollectorcollegecoincollector Posts: 426
    solid 65....too weak a strike for any higher but overall very clean. looks just like a bunch of modern quarters i have from rolls. finding a nice strike esp. with full feather details can be tough sometimes
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,337 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I could convince myself it's not SMS I'd go MS-66 pretty fast.

    But it's almost certainly SMS so MS-65. It's pretty darn nice even for SMS though.
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,524 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If I could convince myself it's not SMS I'd go MS-66 pretty fast.

    But it's almost certainly SMS so MS-65. It's pretty darn nice even for SMS though. >>



    The fields around the eagle don't scream SMS to me. Perhaps its the photo.
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Impossible to grade from the image. MS66 examples are fairly tough

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    The fields around the eagle don't scream SMS to me. Perhaps its the photo. >>



    This is the main reason that I can't convince myself it's SMS. There
    appears to be a die defect above the right wing and atypical pat-
    terning of a new die. Even the obverse could be non-SMS.

    In hand it might be more obviously one or the other but from the
    picture It appears to be clean and appears to be SMS.
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    SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

    image
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