Working dies were treated with an acid solution, then the flat surfaces were buffed with an emery wheel and fine "flour" emery, yielding frosty...
My experience with uncertified BU coins is that they are often lightly circulated and dipped to death. stay away!
IMO should go 66. Higher depends on what the grader had for lunch, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure, how the Dow is doing, etc etc...
Even without seeing the MM, there are so many things wrong with this koin that if someone can't immediately spot this as a fake they should never...
Some really nice gold posted here! Brett I love that 14-D 10$
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BU=Buffed Up
Here are the 4 MM's. To me the entire coin looks like a cast fake, the rims in particular are terrible. [IMG]
The only other thing I'll mention is that there should be a lot of heavy die polish lines around the mintmark. The second set of photos leads me...
Nice closeups!
I don't know about the MM, either. If genuine, Au something.
Late to the party, but I think VF also, and in the 300-400 range if nice surfaces. Like that overdate!
Looks like a nice VF example, great!
Cast copy
adjectives for luster: creamy. coruscating.
1933 birth certificate? Dr Hatch was almost certainly a GP.
My theory.. the coin became coated with something, maybe melted asphalt in a fire, maybe paint, and then buried. The coating cracked, and acidic...
genuine, late die state, scratched, ?cleaned.
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