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<p>[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 2436021, member: 24544"]You are right that the eBay pictures are a little better, and confirm to me that it's ms/au details with a cleaning and recoloring. The skin is not original, it's not even close. And I say maybe au details because the difference between those two grades is a small amount of breaks in the luster at the highest points, but with the recoloring there is no more luster, so finding breaks is impossible. Stripped and retoned coins can hide a small amount of wear, the amount of wear that takes a coin from ms to au...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 2436021, member: 24544"]You are right that the eBay pictures are a little better, and confirm to me that it's ms/au details with a cleaning and recoloring. The skin is not original, it's not even close. And I say maybe au details because the difference between those two grades is a small amount of breaks in the luster at the highest points, but with the recoloring there is no more luster, so finding breaks is impossible. Stripped and retoned coins can hide a small amount of wear, the amount of wear that takes a coin from ms to au...[/QUOTE]
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