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I needed a raw California, and stumbled on this one. With much hesitation, I went for it, and paid more then I normally would for a raw, but I fell in love with the toning. Two sets of images, as different lighting lights up the toning differently. Grade and opinions welcomed. (I'll probably send this off to ANACS, and then I'll have to buy another raw.)     |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MS-63, but wait to see what others say!
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United States
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The first obverse picture, when enlarged, shows plenty of hairlines. May have been cleaned then retoned. The only question would be details cleaned or is it an old & light enough cleaning to be market acceptable?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like 2 different coins, one is over expose that blown out the surface detail and the other set of pictures show more details. The question I have is which set of pictures show the truer color of the actual coin?
As of now I can't make out what grade it will bring, could be AU-58 to MS 65!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
887 Posts |
The color in hand is closer to the over-exposed set. It's decently colorful. I used a ringlight for those images, which has a tendency to blow out highlights. The first set shows the details more realistically, and an angled light was used for that. When I have a coin that looks different depending upon the angle of light, I take two sets to show all aspects of the coin. I totally understand what you're saying.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Beefer... I grade your photos.... EXCELLENT. I'll leave the coin grading to the experts.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Maybe a partial fingerprint on upper left obverse. Very nice example!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These will fool you big time! mine went to anacs ,, I would have bet on 62, came back AU55....Yours looks a little better, hard to tell. this coin has nice toning..
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Tough to say for sure if AU-slider or MS. Nice looking example either way.  Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Posted 09/21/2017 9:02 pm
