Another PCGS restoration - ok, I guess?

Fun fact: At the Central States show this year, I had 3 bust halves, already graded and PCGS slabbed, "trueviewed" and put in Secure Plus slabs. They were ready 14 hours later. I was only charged $17 each for the reholder into Secure Plus. Do you think in those 14 hours they ran them thru their sniffer or the entire process? I don't. Do you @GDJMSP ? What do you think the possibility is they even brought all that equipment with them to the show?

 

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Superdave and the others (including me) are correct: PVC but I'm biased. PCGS "sniffer" or not.

 

maybe he fell asleep for a bit

 

A lesson learned for all of us, by another member expense . I will agree with Doug that coins below Au. Shouldn't be dipped. But after many years of collecting I can honestly say yes I've been taken by a coin with damage pvc or other .
I myself usually only buy xf or better coins when it comes to Morgan and Peace dollars I won't go below an Au.
when I do purchase a xf coin I make sure that the coin I'm buying is worth the money I'm about to lay down for it.
If you're the type that doesn't trust you eye to what you're buying raw you are at the mercy of trusting a TPG.
Since the human factor is a major part of the process we must go into buying a coin with both eyes wide open, be it raw or graded.
Honestly I believe most collectors use the TPG as a crutch, using the slab more so then how the coin truly looks.
We all have seen this many times here on CT by both rookies as well as collectors whom have been in the hobby for years.
My regrets to the OP as they didn't get what they paid for from both the seller as well as the company that did this to this specimen .

 

Do you have any idea of how BORING conversation can be if someone uses different colors of text and smilies?

 

The "new" version is horrible, and the problem is that it can't be uncleaned.

 

PVC or not, I'd imagine it wouldn't just come off with an acetone soak. In order to successfully remove most if not all PVC on a coin, I sometimes had to use a qtip as well and go at it. It was either that or leaving the PVC. I've never soaked more than 5 minutes, but my guess is it might not have worked alone. I think I could've done a tad better than mr hall though

 

I still say that the coin has had a dip as there is non PVC color on the coin that is not there anymore. With regards to the coin being scrubbed, using harvested PVC to create haze in the fields to cover imperfections has been used by coin doctors, so this may partially explain the poor appearance as the coin does look to have been abrasively cleaned before. I still say the piece was dipped.

 

How about the folks who looked at the coin in hand - as mentioned on the last page - and agreed? And you realize PCGS only performs these tests on Secure submissions, right?

 

@GDJMSP

Here is a FACT: IMO, ! Guess an opinion is actually not a fact!
With all the green PVC residue, and haze, that coin should not have been straight graded as it would continue to deteriorate in the holder. To bad it was not properly conserved.

 

Yeah, it really came out pretty bad. It would have been better to do a simple PVC removal one's self--that is pretty easy. I do agree it was probably a cleaned coin, but they made it much worse. Too bad.