Grade NOW!!! PLease

Hey here is the newest addition to my seated dime collection (still need many dates)...but I bought it from Ebay and it is supposed to be AU...so leme know what you think the grade is!! (also if you suspect cleaned..exc.. anything I would need to contact the seller about) Nervous with raw coins..Thanks

 

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Coloring is also a bit off in the scan

 

also have i gotten any better with posting pics?

 

not at all an expert at this series but the sheild has full detail

 

tthanks btw the "tings" that look like surface scratches are not actually there it is dust on my scanner

 

thoughts on taking better pics?

 

scanners work well but the pics look a little blurry

 

It might be AU - at first I thought XF based off what looks like a series of tic marks on left arm. Wait for someone who knows more and be patient it might take them a while to find the thread. My only concern is that based off the scans I can't tell what the surface is like. You have the coin in hand so your judgement will need to come into play.

 

Yes, thank you.

 

The coin would be a low AU
Liberty is completely visible, and the shield is in good detail as well
Lady's right arm looks to have gotten scraped up a couple times...Seems as though she has been spent a couple times, and handled oddly, to say the least
The rims are FULL, and the reverse is excellent details, that of a mint state coin
Back to the obverse, there are some black streak marks, that concern me, as I don't know how they got there. Judging by this scan, of the coin, I'd say it is an original AU53-AU55
Enjoy your coin

 

P.S.

Based on the scan, I can see no mint luster...
If you can take the coin's picture with a camera, try to capture the mint luster if any

 

Goldstone,

Please remember that I'm trying to help you, not hurt you.

If you're really "nervous with raw coins", then you shouldn't be buying them in person, let alone sight unseen on eBay. Buy books and read them. Talk to local dealers if available. Join a local coin club. Go to coin shows and look at coins, and ask questions.

Please, learn how to grade coins, learn how to detect cleaned and/or counterfeit and/or altered coins, before dropping a whole bunch of money into a given series. Sure, we're always glad to help out here (by the way, my opinion is that it's an EF-45/AU-50 coin that has been lightly cleaned -- but I can't tell for sure from the pictures) but you should ask questions before buying; don't nervously ask questions after-the-fact.

 

Thanks, I actually have read a few, yet still I don't trust my own opinion, When I said nervous I was only implying all the things that could have happened to a raw coin, Anyway thanks, and do you think the cleaning could take away from value, and the little black under the foot on observe concerns me going to take a better pic.

 

Just because a coin is in a slab, doesn't mean it has not been cleaned
Most coins, from this ear, the seated and bust era, have been dipped
It is obvious to tell in EF/AU grades, and most that are less than EF won't grade
When they get to the upper MS most that are dipped do indeed get graded, and finding one with luster can be hard to do

 

THANKS SO MUCH, truly you don't know how much I appreciate all of your time.

 

From the pics, the coin has AU details, but IMO it looks like its either been cleaned, or over-dipped.

 

I was thinking possibly cleaned with an eraser or over dipped. It does not look original IMPO.

 

What exactly is dipping i always hear about it

 

This should help: "Dipping, not cleaning" - Coin Talk
Dipping can help a coin, but if it's done wrong it can ruin the luster.

 

It doesn't look, "right"....
With the second set of pics, I think it proves that.
I don't know about it being dipped though...
The eraser thing, kinda makes sense... It has lost the luster, but you can't tell if it is from the cleaning, or just the wear and tear that a coin of that age has been through
The coin being original is questionable, but I don't think it subtracts much from the value, though Goldstone, most coins from the seated/bust era have been cleaned in some way, and it is hard to find a good looking original coin