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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 5142035, member: 10461"]The toning looks secondary and oh-so slightly dull and monochromatic, as if from an old cleaning, which obviously this was. </p><p><br /></p><p>But at least it <i>has</i> retoned. Better that than a scrubby or overdipped appearance, or a too-shiny polishing or whizzing. </p><p><br /></p><p>As cleaned coins go, it’s not bad at all, and it’s otherwise a high grade example of a valuable early type. So not a cheap coin even as-is, and plenty of people would be plenty proud to own it. Cleaned or not, I certainly couldn’t afford one, even in much lower grade than this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 5142035, member: 10461"]The toning looks secondary and oh-so slightly dull and monochromatic, as if from an old cleaning, which obviously this was. But at least it [I]has[/I] retoned. Better that than a scrubby or overdipped appearance, or a too-shiny polishing or whizzing. As cleaned coins go, it’s not bad at all, and it’s otherwise a high grade example of a valuable early type. So not a cheap coin even as-is, and plenty of people would be plenty proud to own it. Cleaned or not, I certainly couldn’t afford one, even in much lower grade than this.[/QUOTE]
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