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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 3785417, member: 105571"]Nice coin. I'll go AU-50 to 53 on wear but I think the right obverse field shows heavy cleaning scratches and the left field to a lesser degree. Any previous dip is probably not going to hurt its chances of being graded but I think the scratches are what's going to get it detailed. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have an otherwise nice AU-50 1808 half that was previously gently dipped and has some cleaning scratches that are hard to detect without a glass. It made it into a small ANACS holder sometime in the 90's without getting a details grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>The scratches on your coin are much more noticeable and distracting to the naked eye.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen many early coins slabbed that were cleaned gently long ago. It seems (and more experienced voices are certainly welcome to debate this) that with the early copper and silver the grading services are more lenient regarding the artifacts from cleaning so long as the results are not clearly distracting to eye appeal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 3785417, member: 105571"]Nice coin. I'll go AU-50 to 53 on wear but I think the right obverse field shows heavy cleaning scratches and the left field to a lesser degree. Any previous dip is probably not going to hurt its chances of being graded but I think the scratches are what's going to get it detailed. I have an otherwise nice AU-50 1808 half that was previously gently dipped and has some cleaning scratches that are hard to detect without a glass. It made it into a small ANACS holder sometime in the 90's without getting a details grading. The scratches on your coin are much more noticeable and distracting to the naked eye. I have seen many early coins slabbed that were cleaned gently long ago. It seems (and more experienced voices are certainly welcome to debate this) that with the early copper and silver the grading services are more lenient regarding the artifacts from cleaning so long as the results are not clearly distracting to eye appeal.[/QUOTE]
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