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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 2146170, member: 9270&quot;]I find Buffalo Nickels difficult to grade.</p><p>I always have to ask myself &quot;wear or weak strike&quot;.</p><p>And I&#039;m not confident that I come up with the correct answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the hairlines from a cleaning were not obvious to my eyes even when using a 9x loupe.</p><p>But when I took some camera images they tended to show up a bit.</p><p>A Guess: Because of the hard coining metal, abrasion is much less obvious.</p><p>If I REALLY wanted to look for abrasive cleaning I would take multiple images of a coin with the lighting coming from different points of the compass.</p><p>That would give me a good chance of finding the parallel hairlines I would expect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was disappointed with six coins coming up DETAILS.</p><p>But I&#039;ve seen enough evidence to accept the analysis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough ANACS assigns a definite grade to DETAILS coins.</p><p>Two of the coins were labeled &quot;Cleaned/AU 55/Details&quot;.</p><p>NGC generally says &quot;Cleaned/AU/Details&quot;.</p><p>And I think PCGS only says &quot;Genuine&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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