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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2351390, member: 24314&quot;]Note: another poster <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> who refuses to answer my simple question - grade? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Yet, keeps questioning me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Don&#039;t know why I should expect anything different here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is a very valid and excellent question. All opinions should be verified like this! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Answer: Depends on time frame.&nbsp; I should guess nearly 175 in my lifetime (4 so far this year - two at FUN Show in January).&nbsp; One of the four was a struck counterfeit.&nbsp; So lets just say I&#039;ve examined at the least 150 of these coins under a stereo microscope in all grades as a professional.&nbsp; Most AU and up + several as low as VF.&nbsp; I have never seen a well worn piece.&nbsp; A few have been struck counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, cleaning silver coins has gone on since ancient times, Soviet Russia is no exception.&nbsp; IMO, this is a very lightly circulated coin with nothing unusual to indicate unacceptable cleaning.&nbsp; Just about any lightly circulated coin has random hairlines.&nbsp; IMO, this coin is a borderline straight/details specimen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Care to tell me how you would grade the coin yet?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":watching:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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