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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I_Love_Silver, post: 1146320, member: 30181&quot;]I&#039;m not convinced it was cleaned -recently anyway. You all are probably mpre knowledgeable than I in this field so I guess I shouldn&#039;t argue huh? A very good observation though. example, I have an 1893 Colombian exposition half that looks like it just rolled out of the press and I know it wasn&#039;t cleaned because I was at the bank in manhattan when the safety deposit box my pop bought was opened for the first time in at least 100 years. they auction them off after an undetermined amount of time and I seen all kinds of brand new looking shiny coins I know for a fact wasn&#039;t handled or touched since they was placed in there. The banker said that those coins were a failiure of sorts right from the beginning and were mainly used as trade tokens and to pay back banks for the loans they made for the expenses for the fair and to strike the coins themselves. I&#039;m a little shady on all the details but you get the drift. I&#039;ll post a pic of said coin if desired.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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