Fooled Again

Some generalities (exceptions exist) regarding die polishing vs. brushing:

A) Polishing will be at its' heaviest adjacent to the devices, and brushing usually the lightest.

B) Polishing will never extend onto the devices, and brushing usually will (under decent magnification).

C) Brushing is more likely to show absolutely consistent direction than polishing; if you see marks of equal strength in multiple directions, lean towards polishing.

Here's a little better pic of the main scratch area. It really took some doing to get them to show up. I had to turn off all other lights and use an ordinary flashlight held at just the right position for them to show.

The field scratches are mostly light but the parallel scratches across her ear are deep, go from top to bottom and are a strip about 1/4" wide centered on the coin.

All of these are very hard to see without good magnification.

The reverse shows very, very slight parallel vertical scratches on the field, really hard to see even with high mag, and the reverse shows no other sign of being cleaned.


Rick

Not at all discouraged, just very surprised that I didn't see the condition at the show as hard as I looked. It takes some strong light to see the issues.

And yep, it's worth close to what I paid, it is still a beautiful coin to the naked eye. As you can make out it has close to zero wear, if not zero.

Rick