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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1708133, member: 27832"]I honestly don't know. I don't have any proofs older than 1956 or so, and most of my impaired proofs are lightly-circulated Kennedy halves, so I don't have a good comparison target.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd kind of expect, though, that this coin would have seen <i>some</i> kind of cleaning over its life, probably more than once. By the time someone finished pawing over it to do that engraving, never mind the hole, I'm sure there would've been fingerprints to take off -- and I don't picture it getting a gentle swirl in an acetone bath.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1708133, member: 27832"]I honestly don't know. I don't have any proofs older than 1956 or so, and most of my impaired proofs are lightly-circulated Kennedy halves, so I don't have a good comparison target. I'd kind of expect, though, that this coin would have seen [I]some[/I] kind of cleaning over its life, probably more than once. By the time someone finished pawing over it to do that engraving, never mind the hole, I'm sure there would've been fingerprints to take off -- and I don't picture it getting a gentle swirl in an acetone bath.[/QUOTE]
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