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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like maybe an Au50. Possible old cleaning, and for some reason the color looks slightly off.
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AU-53. Old dipping. Considered market acceptable.
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Agree low to mid AU nice piece.
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Pillar of the Community
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AU53 ish, probable old dipping looks good though. not over dipped, hows the luster its difficult to tell from pics
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au-55 easily. I see hairlines on the obverse but it should grade straight. Very nice coin!  |
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My first thought was AU53 so I will stick with that.
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AU Details - Cleaned.
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AU-53 details. You spoiled us with that '36.
Edited by Coinfrog
01/29/2017 4:43 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU55, reverse has a shot at AU58. Flatly struck.
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Nice piece. I'm at AU55. not sure if they would details it as the cleaning appears to have been a dip which is very typical for an early 19th century coin sometime during its life. According to PCGS they do not recognize subtle cleaning from a light dip as a reason to assign the details designation unless it was used to hide and alteration or something serious which does not appear to be the case.
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Very nice. I'm at AU-55. I owned an EF-45 and this is MUCH nicer.
I'm still horrible at determining original or cleaned, but I'd lean towards original.
Paul Bulgerin
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AU-55. Yes, it was dipped at one time. More than 95% of the silver coins from this era have also had something done to them. If that had not happened more of them would be black as coal, which would also be unacceptable to the purist collectors. "Original surfaces" does NOT mean attractive color. In fact it's quite often the opposite. And come on fellows, a couple of hairlines on the obverse does not translate to "cleaned." Coins get hairlines when they are slid across a store counter or even from the velvet lined trays in coin cabinets. I have a set of 1876 medals from the Philadelphia Centennial Celebration. As far as I know all of the medals were the pieces that have been in the original box since the set was sold in 1876 for $11. All of the medals are hairlined. Why? The box is velvet lined and the medals were able to move in the spots ever so slightly every time the box was moved.  I have a single silver medal from the same celebration that is not hairlined. Why? the issue box held the medal by its edges and the obverse and reverse did not come in contact with the top and bottom of the little box. Yes, hairlines CAN BE and indicator or cleaning, BUT they are not the result solely from cleaning. Other factors come into play.   Box of issue.  |
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