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Canada
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Artificial toning, probably covers up a cleaning.
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Korea, Republic Of
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United States
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 United States
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Interesting. Clearly it's artificially toned, but I did not realize this was done at time to cover up an old cleaning. Glad I asked!
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United States
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I agree on artificial toning. This coin also is a minor variety (Snow 5), 2 misplaced digits in denticles to left and right of 2nd 8.
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Canada
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I agree with the others, AT
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"Interesting. Clearly it's artificially toned, but I did not realize this was done at time to cover up an old cleaning. Glad I asked!"
Artificial Toning "may" have been utilized to cover up cleaning. Coin doctoring such as AT is also utilized to enhance visual appeal via toning to increase a coins apparent value.
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United States
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interesting comments. I can see the artificial toning, but why would a high end uncirculated (mint state) coin have been cleaned?
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United States
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I agree with AT and likely cleaned or polished. Quote:
why would a high end uncirculated (mint state) coin have been cleaned? It's possible that it is not an uncirculated coin but rather a high AU that someone tried to turn into an uncirculated. It's hard to tell but there could be a touch of wear on the diamonds and the hair curls below. Anyhow, it just makes more sense to me that it was originally a AU rather than a MS. |
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but why would a high end uncirculated (mint state) coin have been cleaned? Because it's not Uncirculated. It's got some wear, and suffered a serious polishing. The buyer is going to be quite disappointed. |
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United States
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Wear on the feather tips is a giveaway that it is circulated. Definitely make to look like an MS/BU coin. NO chance it wouldn't get a details slab.
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United States
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the uncirculated (mint state) description - came from the sellers description - not mine...
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United States
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IMO the question is academic.
Anyone wanting that much money for a coin needs to have it authenticated.
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United States
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Could be toned, polished and maybe photoshopped too.  |
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United States
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A trifecta !
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Posted 05/13/2014 6:18 pm
