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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7608900, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m pretty sure it is low AU. This picture in particular shows what sure looks like wear to me. The darker grey color on the hair, that indicates one of two things, wear, or areas where the luster was eaten away by severe toning.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/20210526_194033929-png.1309652/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And it having wear would indicate why you found it - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the dark spots, I reasonably certain they are not carbon spots, but that is what a whole lot of people commonly refer to them as when spots like this are seen on coins. Real carbon spots are tiny little pieces of impurities embedded in the metal and they cannot be removed. What i Believe you have here is a coin that was at one point toned black. This is indicated by the small black areas, some of them quite tiny, scattered pretty much over the entire coin. And this is a look that is quite common on coins that were toned black and then dipped. The black still seen, is the remains of toning that was not completely removed by the dip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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