Recent ebay purchase, just one more Franklin half to go!! This was listed as GEM BU, paid $36. Did I do okay?
I wouldn't say it makes Gem, TPGs would probably say 64. Struck with very worn out dies and likely dipped recently. But for $36 you did OK.
It may be just the pics but the coin looks to have had more than a dipping done to it? I can't judge how much cleaning was done to it if it the coin was even whizzed but it looks processed and seems to almost have a matte proof finish on it which tells me there could be potential problems. Again....no way to give a definitive opinion based solely on photo's so it may be just dipped.
It's absolutely orange peel I agree....I have just seen that affect on processed coins as well but it absolutely could be a product of degraded dies :bigeyes:
To my knowledge there is no method by which the orange peel effect itself can be duplicated either accidentally or on purpose. If you know of one I'd sure be interested in seing one of those examples. But I have no doubt there are plenty of coins that already had the orange peel effect that have had some sort of coin doctoring done to them.
Some acidic dips can actually cause microscopic pitting across the entire surface of the coin and in hand it looks like orange peel but under a loop it looks like thousands of little dimples like you would find on a golf ball. I don't dip coins so I am unfamiliar with the different products but I had a guy at a flea market show me the process once.
