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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 2857890, member: 84179&quot;]Most collectors with some experience will be able to easily tell that the surface of the coin is different from one straight from the mint or a problem free circulated coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe to add some clarification, an AU coin that has been cleaned to an unnatural shine and has numerous hairlines may be only worth 20% of a problem-free AU coin.&nbsp; Carry it your pocket for a year, wear off the hairlines, and let it start to retone and you may have a coin that grades XF and may be worth 80% of the value of a problem-free XF.&nbsp; If 80% of the XF value is more than 20% of the AU value, you win.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of what you do, it will never be worth the same as an original coin in the original condition[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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