reconditioning cleaned coins ...

I doubt that artificially toning that coin, regardless of how close you try to do it to get it to look like/similar to natural toning, will Never hide the harsh cleaning that is apparent on it.

If you carry it with you in pocket to try to wear the cleaning down, you will eventually do that, and the harsh cleaning will probably disappear, but you will have a very low grade coin by that time, and it's better to have a details coin to sell (and not slabbed as non-cleaned) than one that is much lower in grade.

And yes, Coin Doctoring does include deliberately trying to hide non-gradable features on coins with artificial toning.

 

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What a shame! Very harsh cleaning, deep hairlines....no toning could cover that mess. Looks like a brillo pad or wire brush was taken to it.

 

If you marry her and don't know about that incident in Madrid, what is the difference?

 

Basically a pretty coin, what a shame.

 

so where does that leave us? does the pcgs scale apply at all? pcgs provides:
ms40 US$400
ms55 US$480

or does this girl have the cooties altogether?

 

They are hard sells anyways these days without problems. I'm thinking if it was mine with the problems it does have it would be priced to move in the $225-$250 range.

 

FizzyBasically, coins that are cleaned like that do have cooties! It devalues the coin anywhere from half to 90 percent, usually. Sometimes it totally destroys value.Sorry to have to let you know this, but it is a fact for all coin collectors to know.