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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 6714154, member: 28550&quot;]I used the CoinFacts app to pull up comps that have recently sold in slabs. The oddest bit of wear is on the reverse ribbon, as that isn&#039;t usually found above VF20. But, the cheek wear &amp; wear on the eagle&#039;s wings seem to match EF45 examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>Very odd, as, without checking photograde, I would have bumped any wear in those areas down to VF30 at a minimum. Granted, standards on 180 year old coins are slightly different from the 80 year old coins that I come across more often! And, haven&#039;t almost all of the coins with &quot;straight&quot; grades of this age been cleaned to a lesser or greater degree? Even store tellers were likely to wipe dirt or grease off these with a pocket handkerchief, and customers likely kept them in pockets or pouches that even modern hobos would consider grossly unclean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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