My grading skills have improved quite a bit over the last couple years, I think. The next skill I really need to improve upon, is distinguishing coins that have been cleaned. After all, there can be a much bigger value difference between a cleaned coin vs uncleaned, than perhaps between a VF and EF coin. Does anyone have any recommendations (books, reading materials or YouTube) on identifying cleaned coins? Thanks for any help and suggestions!
I was bouncing back and forth between VG-10 and F-12. It looks more 12 to me, and that is most likely what I would have given it. And I'm generally a conservative grader.