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Posted 08/02/2011 11:10 pm
Todays standards call for an MS65+ to get the MS65 grade, even though one could easily see many MS65's in TPG holders right NOW especially NGC where your coin looks as good or better than those coins, but alas its a solid MS64+ IMHO still that puts it in a safe investment...one usually forgets that most of those coins in the Redfield Hoard HAVE such a "SPECAIL" silver Patina to them as they were NEVER DIPPED in any way...and have the "original skin" to them..one has to really look and COMPARE what a true original untouched coin really looks like to understand all the doctored and accepted BLAST WHITE coins out there in the market...
As usual you take some really fine pictures!!
but the original skin is very hard to capture as I am sure you can see "IN HAND".. I own several Redfields that are true "stand alone" coins for there ORIGINAL LUSTER that most never see this beauty in original luster.. but rather the majority of coins we find with brilliant luster that is "white" but not "A TRUE SILVER LUSTER" from an original skin
coin as they were taken from the original mint bags and put into slabs,,,,One must remember that toned coins were not widely accepted back in the day and every shop had its own secret formula to enhance the LUSTER without damaging the surface, TRY TARNEX and see some months later how it has stripped the original layers off and it and what happens to the coins luster after a year or so! it can get real ugly...
As usual you take some really fine pictures!!
but the original skin is very hard to capture as I am sure you can see "IN HAND".. I own several Redfields that are true "stand alone" coins for there ORIGINAL LUSTER that most never see this beauty in original luster.. but rather the majority of coins we find with brilliant luster that is "white" but not "A TRUE SILVER LUSTER" from an original skincoin as they were taken from the original mint bags and put into slabs,,,,One must remember that toned coins were not widely accepted back in the day and every shop had its own secret formula to enhance the LUSTER without damaging the surface, TRY TARNEX and see some months later how it has stripped the original layers off and it and what happens to the coins luster after a year or so! it can get real ugly...
