The carbon spots stick out like a sore thumb, The luster is smooth, nt much eye appeal, It also has it's fair amount of planchet roughness. Just...
70D could only be found in a Mint set. Not sure what the give away was?
Wow just WOW!
It's impossible to tell anything from those photos.
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MS65
It's the new AU58. Slider MS61
Gold coins are made of .900 fine gold not .891 fine.
A few bag marks and some light luster grazes. I voted MS66.
No worries Cliff.
I believe that that is just the fineness of the ingot. Honestly though,I am not sure. I would imagine that the mint used .9999 pure gold and added...
I never said any of this, I said that the first thing I look for is luster and eye appeal. Then Contact/circ and last planchet roughness. It...
What did it look like before conservation?
IMO the luster looks fairly nice. but, not what you would expect from a gem or better. Don't mind what looks like small bag marks on the high...
I went 64. Anacs has been grading pretty conservative lately. These IKE's are sometimes graded lenient due to planchet roughness but not bag marks.
I think that I would contact the Society. It might bennefit you to find out if this was a commemorative token. Or a token given out at the second...
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