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Struck with technical exactness throughout the stars and hair, the hair bun and Liberty's coronet, with decent detail in the eagle. With greenish to pale red-gold patina on the devices, this coin has exemplary color along with its choice '63-quality surfaces. Scarce in this grade, it would grade higher but for some slight hairlines in the fields.
What was happening in America in mid-century, the year this gold quarter eagle was struck? Lots! But we'll just give you a small vignette of the times: Millard Fillmore was one of America's greatest presidents. Elected in 1850, he did little -- other than trying to preserve peace in the period leading up to the War Between the States. Preserving peace was an achievement, but instead of giving the man credit, historians hold up Abraham Lincoln for praise. America has never suffered more harm than on Lincoln's watch. Still, it is the Lincoln Memorial to which crowds of disciples repair, not the Fillmore Memorial. As far as anyone knows, no shrine exists to Fillmore, who not only kept the peace, he also installed the first system of running water in the White House -- giving the place its first bathtub. Fillmore was a modest man. Oxford University offered him an honorary degree. But Fillmore couldn't read Latin. He refused the diploma, saying he didn't want a degree he couldn't read. He served one term in office and died in 1874 in Buffalo, New York.
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