Joe - what was your source for that info you posted ?
I can see no signs of wear, the the left obv fields have been lightly wiped. It's a toss up as to whether or not it would slab. I'd say the coin...
Dipped - definitely. Harshly cleaned - no. That coin just received some very rough handling at the time it was new. And it appears that it was put...
spock considers what NCS does - as cleaning. He wasn't saying that you did it - merely that it was done.
Out of 550 products that the mint offered last year - 350 of them will no longer be offered. Can't swear to it, but I think the W mint products...
You can confuse people with comments like that. Using the technical grading system that coin would grade no better than XF45. The grade AU58...
Also possible it could have been struck on a foriegn coin planchet.
Good thing that's what you want, because that was your first guess too. No, once you post your guess that's it. There will be no changes.
Don't be surprised - it is commonplace.
NGC does not do conservation. I can only assume that because of the dark toning he wanted to see if the coin could be conserved and possibly grade...
AU55 would be my opinion. Wear on obv and rev.
You should also be told Dave that these are not genuine coins from the time of the Calf. gold rush. These are much more modern tokens.
No worries there Joe - I hate everybody equally :D
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Howdy Dave - Welcome to the Forum !! Sounds like a California gold token to me. Problem is, there are more fakes and modern copies out there...
These are the changes - 1968 Lettering thickness revised 1968 cents have an extraordinarily smooth and featureless effigy of Lincoln....
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Pretty much the whole coin shows signs of it. This is one of the easier areas to see.
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