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Pillar of the Community
United States
880 Posts |
Cleaning aside, what would you all grade this one? Sadly, my mom took silver polish to this one back in the late '70s.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
Lots of us used to do the same thing back in the day.
AU55-AU58
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2003 Posts |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36770 Posts |
AU details, harshly cleaned.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
I'll say EF details (cleaned).
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
18670 Posts |
 AU details (cleaned) bad mom...bad |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
10547 Posts |
That's too bad about the polishing.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
74346 Posts |
I'll say AU details, cleaned.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
880 Posts |
The local coin dealer way back in time graded this VF. In hand twirling it around under light, it actually looks quite nice despite the cleaning. I was thinking EF to start with, but taking another look at photograde, I think it makes lower end AU.
Unfortunately mom cleaned a few other silver coins including a very nice AU 1900 commem Lafayette dollar. So sad!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36770 Posts |
Sounds like your mother did what many non-collectors did, make them bright and shiny so they look better. Unfortunately, she reduced the value of them by 30-40%.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
It makes AU all right. I just can't tell what the surfaces really look like. Based on your description, AU Details - Improperly Cleaned.
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Pillar of the Community
Taiwan
606 Posts |
AU 55 - AU58 Straight graded.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11894 Posts |
au details cleaned
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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