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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 4392467, member: 7638&quot;]Now for the grade reveal...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The AU&#039;s have it!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1105156[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As was promptly pointed out by B.berrypie, this is the scarce type 1/2 micro s</p><p>variety (not cherrypicked by me); the story I have heard is that someone at the Phila. mint grabbed an S MM punch made for dimes and used it on the die(s) to be sent to SF. It&#039;s a fun variety; I have another (raw about AU50) with terrific patina but some rim digs.&nbsp; There is some highpoint rub that you can see, and some slight loss of luster in the left obv field (also hard to see);&nbsp; the luster breaks are actually more apparent in hand on the rev.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any signs of a cleaning under the unforgiving light of the xenon bulb in my kitchen range hood. </p><p>&nbsp; Thanks for the guesses and comments, and especially to Publius2 for such an informative post as to their thought process in evaluating the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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