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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rlm&#039;s cents, post: 528603, member: 7957&quot;]First, I see nothing to indicate to me that the coin has been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the alloy mix, this coin is not from the 50&#039;s and it is not silver.&nbsp; I have seen what you are referring to maybe back to the late 40&#039;s, but not earlier.&nbsp; That coin you have just does not look like anything I associate with alloy mixing.&nbsp; Every one I have or have seen, it is the malformed brassy looking alloy that does not turn brown like a properly mixed alloy (usually surrounding) does.&nbsp; On my 23-S, the graining virtually disappears where the coin has it original red.&nbsp; The closest I have to a coin like yours is a 13-D that may appear similar, but it is two shades of brown and not the red and brown you have.&nbsp; If you look at my 13-D, the boundaries between the colors are just not the same.&nbsp; Yours are pillowy and mine are kind of jagged.&nbsp; The only thing on your coin that even remotely reminds me of alloys is at the &quot;e pluribus&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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