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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;40_mila_kokkina, post: 1956598, member: 59115&quot;]I&#039;ve always wondered how do you properly dip or clean a coin (only if it&#039;s an obvious situation to do of course)?</p><p><br /></p><p>Curious, might this be your Bay Bridge coin you photographed?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an AU-58 Bay Bridge (SEGS) with 100% natural dark grey toning. This was the coin before it slabbed and looks much better in person. Here it is, crappy photos, sorry:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]344230[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]344231[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought the coin raw on Ebay luckily it graded with a normal outcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to my bank vault yesterday and looked at the SEGS Bay Bridge coins I&#039;ve submitted to them, all were graded correctly except for one. I have this VF-20 specimen that looks very harshly cleaned and overgraded. Between where it says &quot;IN GOD WE TRUST&quot; and &quot;HALF DOLLAR&quot; it&#039;s obvious of the fact it was cleaned. This is my one and only extremely lowball Bay Bridge example. It should grade VG-10 Details IMHO. I&#039;ve posted this one already on CoinTalk. Here it is before graded:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]344232[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]344233[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The NGC Bay Bridge AU-58 you picture is a decent coin however since it was dipped it does exhibit dull grey flat luster. My SEGS AU-58 pictured has less luster however it is brilliant luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of the bears, I also have a couple of AU-58 California Jubilee coins that look natural as well (NGC &amp; older PCI), not toned but silvery white.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coin I posted earlier that I recently submitted to SEGS, you do have a point based on that it is not AU, however in person I believe the coin exhibits stronger details than the photos I provided suggest. That is why I am somewhat confident the coin will probably grade AU-53 or somewhere in that neighborhood. It could grade XF (I will keep everyone posted on the result) but I would say 3/4 that AU will be the outcome but then again I&#039;m not the expert.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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