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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2720953, member: 10461&quot;]Hi, Kevin.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, &quot;Gem&quot; describes a choice Mint State coin in about MS65 grade range.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is not Mint State at all- not even close- but rather a visibly circulated example which has been cleaned.&nbsp; What you are mistaking for &quot;luster&quot; is in fact evidence of polishing, which is not good.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would personally grade it in the choice Very Fine range with VF25 to VF30 <i>details</i>, and the cleaning will knock the value down a bit from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the <i>bad</i> news.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the <i>good</i> news is that it is still a fairly desirable coin, even as-is, and if you bought it for less than $50, I think you didn&#039;t do too badly.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismedia.com/fmv/prices/setdim/pricesp.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismedia.com/fmv/prices/setdim/pricesp.shtml" rel="nofollow">Numismedia lists an 1842-O dime for $40 in F12 and $186 in VF20.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours has details a little bit better than VF20 (again, I&#039;d estimate VF25-35 <i>details- </i>maybe XF40 on a good day), but factoring in the cleaning, it&#039;s likely to fetch closer to the Fine (F12) price than the Very Fine (VF20) price.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Seated10/Grades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Seated10/Grades" rel="nofollow">Here is the PCGS/Photograde page</a> with some comparison photos.&nbsp; It&#039;s not the most useful grading guide around, but can give you some idea, for a quick reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it worth grading?&nbsp; Hmm... I&#039;m not so sure.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t bother, personally.&nbsp; I think it would come back with a &quot;details&quot; grade for the cleaning, and you&#039;d end up spending $35+ to grade a coin that&#039;s only worth $45-50-ish.&nbsp; But that&#039;s your call.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re welcome to solicit other opinions, of course, and perhaps someone with more specialized experience in this series will chime in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS</b>- upon further examination of your photos, it appears the white balance is off, so it&#039;s difficult to determine just how &quot;shiny&quot; (i.e., harshly cleaned) the coin is.&nbsp; A coin with that level of wear should not be shiny at all.&nbsp; However, it might fall within the range of acceptability.&nbsp; IF you got it slabbed by a reputable third-party grading service like PCGS or NGC or even ICG or ANACS, <i>without</i> a &quot;details&quot; grade or &quot;problem&quot; notation for cleaning, you&#039;d have a coin worth over a hundred bucks.&nbsp; I think it would get hit for cleaning, though.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;d keep it as-is.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a bad coin for what you paid.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PPS</b>- your poll makes no sense at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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