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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 279287, member: 8959&quot;]Thank you all for your comments. It is quite difficult to take pictures so they really represent the actual appearance of a coin.</p><p>I have not mastered the art yet of finding optimal lighting conditions. In this case, the coin does look quite a bit lighter in the picturethan it is in reality. It is really a &quot;dark battleship grey&quot;colour. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the subject of cleaning, i have to confess i am realy no good at telling when a coin has been cleaned. Some cases are obvious: for example a 2000 year old Roman denarius with a brigth, shiny apperance....that just cannot be. </p><p>(although i once found a denarius of the emperor Vitellius (69 a.D) with my metal detector buried at 15cm in hard ground, and it was very light silver in colour believe or not, when i dug it out after ca. 1800 years in the ground. It then quickly toned dark grey upon exposure to the atmosphere. </p><p>Recently i bought an 1874 S quarter in ANACS holder marked &quot;AU 50 detail, net EF 40 cleaned&quot;.&nbsp; It actually has a very nice uniform brownish tone.....i never would have guessed that it had been cleaned.&nbsp; &nbsp; yes, this is a mystery to me.&nbsp; </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Eduard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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