$3 Gold Guess The Grade

Nope...

 

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Matt,

In regards to my question earlier... Do you know what process or method they use to remove the copper spots?

And I didn't say in my first post, that is a beautiful coin!

 

No, it's a closely guarded trade secret. I don't know the process used.

 

Well what are they charging on this service? On my rare date gold coins with spots I've just been coloring over it with a gold paint-pen.

 

Nailed it. Can't wait to see it! Congrats again

 

not per NGC

 

Hmmm. It looks oddly smooth to me. I rarely see these coins, in person or in pictures, so I wouldn't really even know.

Is this what the surfaces of an UNC example will typically look like?

 

Yeah, these later date $3 gold pieces sometimes come with some satiny luster.

 

Surfaces look find to me some of those ms gold coins of the 19th c have a matte effect rather then bright fields not sure if it was the planchet alloy or the die surfaces but I've seen this before

 

Personally, I don't see copper spots as a problem; they are just a result of the vagaries of mixing an alloy in the 19th century, and I think that they add character.