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I don't feel it's right to even ask the seller to clean up the mess.
Tough to grade from that image. Looks to be FS with the reverse of 1940. In 65 or better it's worth sending in for grading. If you get better...
Some years back you could buy new envelopes for proof sets. You probably still can. Folks were making up large groups of sealed 64 proof sets to...
Looks like it may have had an acid bath. Don't think that would take away a half gram. Poor quality cast copy? Interesting coin.
You should pay the guy.
I gave this a try but was never very good at it. There was a member of CU named Cosmic, years ago that did some really great work. This is a...
That's some of Cosmic's work. It's called Original toning. The half image is famous. http://www.coingallery.org/VirtualGallery.html
Some marks are there before the coin is struck and the strike does not remove them. You see this on nickels as well.
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It's not cleaned.
I would try acetone and leave it at that.
Very nice.
Cool. Having 30, 70-S small dates from the same die is really special.
Sure looks like something is going on with that mint mark.
I can't see it in the images. Are you saying all the coins have the exact same scratches in the same spot on the coin?
It can hurt the value. Some don't care for it and others don't mind. I'm not sure all those scratches came from the die.
I went 66 as well.
I went with 67.
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