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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2143721, member: 112&quot;]I agree, that is not putty, merely light wear.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It might be just that. But you should also be aware the Rooster coins are well known for being several different shades of color. Color is hard to describe with words, but some are what I would call bright gold, gold. The same color that a new AGE has. Others will be a darker shade kind of like yours. Still others will have a reddish tint to the color, and I don&#039;t mean red spots, I mean the whole coin will have a reddish tint to the color. Here&#039;s a few pictures to kind illustrate what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]410515[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410516[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]410517[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now putty, that&#039;s a different thing altogether. The way Doug Winters describes it the article linked to is pretty accurate. As it ages and dries out it gets kind of a whitish cast to it, almost milky in appearance, and is much easier to see. If it has been there long enough it may even flake off a bit. But when fresh, it is very difficult to detect and can fool anybody at times. Only with very careful examination can it be seen. And you have to know what you are seeing when you see it or you will miss it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where the machines that NGC and PCGS call &quot;the sniffer&quot; comes in handy. The machines are capable of detecting even the finest traces of putty on a coin, as well as several other substances. But only coins submitted under special grading tiers are run through the sniffer. So many puttied coins still avoid detection by the TPGs, and most other people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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