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shoover4 Valued Member United States 63 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:05 pm I picked this one up pretty cheap (~$40) at an auction. Curious as to its grade and as to whether I should send it off for professional grading. I'd appreciate your thoughts. Report this Post to the Staff

Canadian-Banknotes Pillar of the Community Canada 4944 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:09 pm Welcome to the forum! Looks like it has been quite harshly cleaned. AU Details, not worth getting graded. Report this Post to the Staff
zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:21 pm A very low value coin, the price of grading would be larger than or equal to the full value of the coin. Report this Post to the Staff
WheatBack Pillar of the Community United States 2850 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:24 pm Definitely cleaned. Obverse photo almost appears that it's been polished. I'm going say AU Details as well. Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:30 pm I'd need better photos before I'd pronounce it as having been cleaned. There does seem to be enough wear (especially on the eagle's breast) to call it XF45. I concur that there'd be little benefit in submitting it for certification. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff
chasingtailbar Pillar of the Community 968 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 10:35 pm Pfft, better photos? That thing was polished to heck and back. XF details, cleaned. Report this Post to the Staff
westernsky Pillar of the Community United States 7618 Posts	Posted 07/15/2014 11:47 pm There are a "ton" of lightly circulated 1879-O and 1880-O dollars out there. Yours was probably one of those coins that someone decided to dip, or clean, to try and make it look better. It didn't work. I always heard that the New Orleans mint released those dates in quantity and then recalled them days and weeks later. I know that there were solid date bags of lightly circulated 79-O and 80-O dollars in the Treasury hoards that were released in the early 1960's. (Same thing occurred with some 84-S bags too that had nothing but lightly circulated coins in them). Bet that's where your coin originally came from. Report this Post to the Staff
CoinCollector2012 Pillar of the Community United States 8137 Posts	Posted 07/16/2014 07:39 am AU details Report this Post to the Staff
IndianGoldEagle Bedrock of the Community United States 36741 Posts	Posted 07/16/2014 10:12 am AU-55 details, cleaned Report this Post to the Staff
wheatchaser140 Pillar of the Community United States 2368 Posts	Posted 07/16/2014 10:20 am EF to AU details, harshly cleaned. Worth melt, don't send it in to a TPG. Report this Post to the Staff
Joseph7420 Bedrock of the Community Canada 11922 Posts	Posted 07/16/2014 2:25 pm AU-53. Report this Post to the Staff
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