If you are selling it, it's a Fine. If you are buying it, it's a VF. What it comes down to is price. Grading these days is a short hand for pricing.
TaaaaaDaaaaaa!
Nope! Me either!
"Unfortunately, you don't get to know if it "looks like it's been cleaned" until afterward, which is a bit too late...." True. But with...
Wow. I'd love to buy some VG's and VF's from somebody!
My thought is that if no one can tell it's been cleaned then it hasn't. If a tree falls in the forest.......
MS70 is a commercial detergent coin cleaner. It removes dirt and some light tone and is great for dirty looking mint state silver. Perhaps it...
I would subject both of those to an MS70 cleaning. Perfect situation for that.
XF with claims to AU. No whizzing. Can't tell if it was dipped. Doubt it as dipping nickel doesn't do a whole lot but make the coin dull. I see...
Silver is highly reactive. Not very stable as a metal in contact with many things.
The above note went through the wash with the work clothes.
What images?
AU55.
Web notes don't have plate numbers. I found all the rare blocks in circulation including a star. I sold them years ago before they had much...
Oh YES on the '84 S. I would hope for an AU58. I would say no on the '79 CC.
tmoneyeagles: I'm afraid it's not Malarkey. Perhaps it is easy to tell some artificial toning but it is simply impossible for them to tell what...
There really is NOT a definition for either "Artificial" nor "Natural " toning. It is what the grading services say it is.
Some things go up. Some things go down. Rarely at the same time though.
VF20
Being a coin dealer I, of course, would answer that with ....... "With ME!"
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