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It is hard to tell from the photos but it doesn't appear cleaned to me. Perhaps the lines you see are die polish lines? It looks to be AU-55 to me.
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU-55 and does not appear to be cleaned.
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Here is one more picture of the hairlines I see on the observe. I really struggle to tell the difference between cleaning scratches and honest circulation scratches. Does this better screenshot make any difference in your opinion or do you still say this is an honest lightly circulated coin? Thanks!  |
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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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AU details, obverse damage. Reverse appears semi-prooflike. IMO, the hit under the eye is hard enough to details the coin unless you get a very lenient TPG grader. 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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AU-55, not cleaned. I'm on the fence whether the hit on the face would detail it. It looks too big for a bag mark. Either way, it's pretty distracting.
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Grade wise, I think it's a 55. With that hit under the eye, it would possibly detail out, but I doubt you would ever submit this for TPG, so that probably doesn't matter. On the cleaned part of your question, if you look at the first and third photo of the obverse there appears to be a darker golden band near the peripheries, among the closely packed details of the elements of the design, that immediately disappears once it goes out into the fields. That could either be simple toning near the periphery, which is great, or it could be a light cleaning attempt. That cleaning didn't get down into the lettered areas for example, but does show up in the open field areas. The only way to tell this, one from the other, is to see how the luster moves on the coin. Even with your excellent photos, that's a hard call to make if not in hand. |
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AU-55, but with or without details the gouge puts me off.  |
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This Morgan is from an interesting sub-set with the fourth star unbroken/ r in trust broken - only two varieties, VAM-5 and 6. I think you have a VAM-5 based on the dimple on the cheek.
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That hit on the cheek is pretty destracting.
It might technically be an AU-55, but I think the hit brings it down to AU-53
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