Please, Your Thoughts On This 1893-CC

If YOU like it, can afford it and will be happy with it is all that matters.

As far as the coin goes the cleaning appears to me to have been very light and done long ago.

The hairlines are relatively light in nature, indicating that the cleaning was done by someone wiping it with a rag or cloth which had dust or dirt or other contaminants that abraded the coin's surface, and then only on the obverse. It's light enough that it may have even happened in circulation, or while in an album.

In terms of eye appeal, it looks original otherwise, especially in toning and contrast, so it was not chemically cleaned.

I would consider this coin as slabbed to have suffered only a slight loss in market value, maybe 10-20%, and I would bet if you broke it out of that ANACS slab it would sell for close to full market price due to demand for the date/mintmark and the fact that eye appeal was not excessively compromised. I would also add that it is overgraded at VG10 and is closer to a technical VG8. My valuation would be $200-$220 as is.

Have you checked VAM WORLD to compare the mintmark to known varieties?

For a Details coin, it looks pretty decent. If you can get it for a good chunk under FMV, I would consider it.

Congratulations !

As long as you're happy, it was worth it

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Eye appeal for the grade is decent. As for a price? I tend to agree with Kanga. An upgraded fine shouldn't be much more.