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Pillar of the Community
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I jumped on this one today, how do you think it grades? Worth grading?   Thanks for viewing |
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 United States
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Appreciate your outstanding photos - that makes our input so much more accurate. No questions on authenticity, and the strike quality is on par with this lowest relief coin in the classic silver commemorative series. What concerns me are the deep and broad parallel hairlines seen throughout the coins surface. To my eye this is a coin which has been harshly cleaned. The fields below the Liberty Bell have been alas scrubbed extra hard. Not worth your money to pay a TPG to return a 'cleaned' grade - but definitely a worthy classic silver commemorative from our nations Sesquicentennial.  Edited by nickelsearcher
11/08/2025 3:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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nickelsearcher, very much appreciated! I'd thought it looked like it had an old cleaning but wasn't positive, it sort of tarnished back over, but I see those lines you mention. Agreed on the TPG, and yes, I'm still very happy to have found one  Edited by MintedNotPrinted
11/08/2025 3:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice pickup, unfortunately reverse has all thee signs of cleaning.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
United States
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I fully agree with the "cleaned" diagnosis - the coin shows multiple signs of a past mechanical cleaning. Good to read that you enjoy having it in your collection - all US commemorative coins deserve a good home!  Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Pillar of the Community
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Freespeech, commems, thank you both for your responses! Commems, agreed, glad to give it one |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Prior cleaning yes - but who cares? It's a nice commemorative Half that will look fine as an album or type coin!
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Pillar of the Community
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Marve65, thank you, very much agreed. Depends on the coin for sure, there's a certain look to cleaned coins that I'd be more apt to avoid.
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Edited by MintedNotPrinted
11/08/2025 10:52 pm
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Prior cleaning yes - but who cares? It's a nice commemorative Half that will look fine as an album or type coin!  Very nice! |
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Very nice half dollar commemorative! |
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Posted 11/08/2025 3:45 pm
