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<p>[QUOTE="PyrotekNX, post: 89881, member: 3918"]Looks like it was cleaned and polished at some point. It's also quite baggy and probably not be worth anything more than melt value. Look on the bright side, gold will never go down.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be a bad pic too the cheap 2x2 is making it come out distorted. I would take it out and put it into a direct fit inert plastic holder and take more pics. On a sidebar, all gold coins should be slabbed for authenticity. Gold coins in this era were commonly counterfeited.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PyrotekNX, post: 89881, member: 3918"]Looks like it was cleaned and polished at some point. It's also quite baggy and probably not be worth anything more than melt value. Look on the bright side, gold will never go down. It could be a bad pic too the cheap 2x2 is making it come out distorted. I would take it out and put it into a direct fit inert plastic holder and take more pics. On a sidebar, all gold coins should be slabbed for authenticity. Gold coins in this era were commonly counterfeited.[/QUOTE]
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