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<p>[QUOTE="Arizona Jack, post: 592350, member: 9308"]to continue on with the thread as an educational venue and to not bang the op for his nice coin, i have to agree with leadfoot.</p><p> </p><p>lets look at the ovberse, a nice vf-25ish abe , perhaps even a 30. nice color, decent enought strike, just an average coin.</p><p> </p><p>reverse. we have 2 issues.</p><p> </p><p>color and removed stuff. to the left of the left wheat in the 9k position, and the t in cent.....we have 2 areas with cleaning evident and something was removed. the reverse has lost it's natural look to it and has been doctored.</p><p> </p><p>on a circ coin like this , it is not the end of the world, i have seen much worse. but , like i started this, if these coins and threads, regardless of the author, are to be educational, we must shoot from the hip and let her fly.</p><p> </p><p>everybody would benifit if you took a roll of generic wheats and played with them, cleaned them, everything you can think of. you will see this stuff much easier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Arizona Jack, post: 592350, member: 9308"]to continue on with the thread as an educational venue and to not bang the op for his nice coin, i have to agree with leadfoot. lets look at the ovberse, a nice vf-25ish abe , perhaps even a 30. nice color, decent enought strike, just an average coin. reverse. we have 2 issues. color and removed stuff. to the left of the left wheat in the 9k position, and the t in cent.....we have 2 areas with cleaning evident and something was removed. the reverse has lost it's natural look to it and has been doctored. on a circ coin like this , it is not the end of the world, i have seen much worse. but , like i started this, if these coins and threads, regardless of the author, are to be educational, we must shoot from the hip and let her fly. everybody would benifit if you took a roll of generic wheats and played with them, cleaned them, everything you can think of. you will see this stuff much easier.[/QUOTE]
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