Guess what PCGS had to say about this Seated Half

Tinkered?

 

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Shipwreck Effect?

 

Sal, augmented can also mean to make more valuable...

"You keep using that word - I do not think it means what you think it means"

 

Smoothed perhaps?

 

+1

 

You got it. The label reads Surfaces Smoothed-AU Details. I wonder how that is done.

The first time the coin came back from PCGS the label called it an 1848-O $10 gold pc. You would think someone would have noticed that before it was sent out.

 

For the longest time I had an MS63 three cent nickel worth maybe a hundred bucks or so. NGC labeled it as a three cent silver and showed the value on their webpage as 800 bucks. Wish I would have kept that one.

 

I think that is a more common designation for ancient coins but the surface looks messed with and too smooth to be natural.

 

Regardless of the grade it is a good looking coin Larry.

 

Smoothed ? Fonzie must have graded it.

 

So they raised the temperature of the coin....the metal got a bit softer....and they're able to manipulate it to hide marks or damage ?

Seems like a very technical, highly-detailed process that would stand out, no ?

 

I was going to guess "Boinked"

 

Hardly seem worth the effort to me.

 

Well, I couldn't see it and only suspected it by process of elimination. After the reveal, I think I can see what it looks like on the OP's coin and others.