Help me grade this.

I am thinking au 58. What say you.

 

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She's Purrdy!! I can't even begin to grade this lovely Coin. Can you darken the Pic please. More Natural tone. Thanks.

 

Au 50 harshly cleaned ...99.99% sure it was removed from a jewery bezel,the edges show wear.....

 

tough to tell from the photos; how much cartwheel is there in the fields? significant luster breaks?

 

It's hard to grade this from these photos, but I believe that it has been polished. If you own it that's okay. If you are thinking about buying it, I would pass unless it's near melt.

The key is the recognize mint luster. It's like the "cartwheel" you see when you swirl a Morgan Dollar under the light. If the luster is broken or coin only shines, it's a problem. Here is a photo that shows mint luster.

This coin is graded PCGS MS-62, CAC.

 

I'm agreeing with others that it was cleaned.

 

Looks like it rolled around someone's pocket or purse also. Nice coin, cleaned, AU in my opinion. In your favor I hope I'm wrong. Thanks for sharing and good luck.

 

Do you suspect there may be tooling?

 

Something strikes me as It’s been tampered with in the past.

 

I say yes if I had in hand to look over....a piece like this I advoid unless I can obtain it at spot.
From the image its hard to make a honest call...but if the image represents what I see ...pass.

 

Look at * 11 as well a few others...looks like medal moved

The S shows signs of dirt oil in the loops yet other devices are clean

 

I don't even try to grade gold coins, but other than lots of bag marks, and that strange halo around the star at 3 O'clock, it looks good to me as uncirculated.

 

@Steve theButcher Gold is difficult to photograph properly; the lighting in these photos is harsh, and the sharpness is a little soft, so there is some guesswork on my part in thinking that it would grade AU55/58.

IMO the coin has not been intentionally polished; I don't see any hairlines, and there is enough roughness in the fields that any abrasive polishing would have uniformly smoothed them.

 

She's a pretty girl.

 

I agree with Sal. The photos are a bit too bright. That said, it looks to be close to MS but a bit baggy to make brilliant. Still a coin I wouldn't mind owning.

 

Unless the glare is obscuring it there's no wear on that I'm seeing. It's pretty beat up, though. MS62 on the generous side, at least on those photos.

 

I took a couple better pictures.

 

58. I say yes too

 

Those are much better than the first. Mid AU to slider, just depend on the grader.