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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2297319, member: 1892&quot;]It&#039;s unfortunate, but we have to consider this as a possibility. You definitely wouldn&#039;t expect a cleaned coin in a GSA slab, any questions about the quality of their evaluation at the time of sale notwithstanding. The overwhelming majority of GSA Morgans simply never left government possession to <b>be</b> cleaned. And we all know the more likely mistake with GSA coins is to find a nice Mint State in a cello holder, rather than a dog in black plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all of that said, I ain&#039;t seeing what they are about the cleaning. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I did a ton of looking at this coin in the process of attribution (noted below), and from this one set of images I cannot see any evidence of cleaning. </p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be VAM-19.2, the later die pairing with the reverse. I believe I can see the polishing lines at the stalk/leaf and stem on the obverse, and the lack of hub defect detail around the E in ONE tends to indicate it should be the second die pair anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1878-CC+VAM-19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1878-CC+VAM-19" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1878-CC+VAM-19</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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