I took a blurry photo Ebay coin gamble recently and now I have this: The reverse is very nice and has lots of luster left. The obverse fields have quite a bit of luster remaining around the lettering and stars, but the cheek and neck have many hairlines. I'm fairly confident that reverse hasn't been cleaned, but I'm suspicious of the obverse. Was it cleaned or are they from something else? Here's an AU-55 that has hairlines on the profile: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2962602155...eRWizwtZkCO8iSoPyiHNFAQgE=|tkp:Bk9SR_T4l5qlZA I took several pictures of the obverse with different lighting angles if that helps. (see below)
ok that's a tough one, reverse as you mention is beautiful... The hairlines on the obverse are another story.. very faint and not clustered so at 1st glance i would say she would grade clean (as in NOT detailed/cleaned) but looking at the other obverse closeups I notice that almost all the hairlines are on the same plane going from left to right across the face and fields. These make me think it's an old gentle cleaning but still a cleaning. I would personally give it a 50/50 chance at the TPG of getting a detail grade. That said, she is still a beauty that I would be happy to have in my collection As for the example you posted.. that IS a detail coin, "details/scratched" and should not have been given a clean grade IMO...
I love the coin. Not sure about the cleaning comment but worth the gamble. What did you pay if I may ask?
If you don’t think it’s been cleaned, spend some time looking at the fields in front of Ms. Liberty’s face. There are other areas, but those are especially obvious.
The hairline on the neck is unfortunate, and maybe it was cleaned in the past, but maybe it wasn't. I can't really tell. Anyway, that's a really sharp example with nice luster. Less than 20 bucks, you say? That is a major score!!! Assessing it at AU55, that's a $150 coin per Numismedia. Even if we want to be conservative and figure it at AU50 (though I think the detail is better than that), it's a $118 coin. OK, so deduct some more for the possible cleaning and the hairline(s), just to be extremely conservative, and that's still almost a $100 coin. No way you can lose at that price point. Unless it's fake. (It's not.) Coingratulations!
