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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7597654, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s what it is - toning, and very advanced toning. Of course what we can still see on the coin is only what the coin dip didn&#039;t get off. That thick dark area on the obv by the I, that&#039;s basically what the whole coin looked like before it was dipped. In other words pretty much the whole coin was covered with that thick black layer before it was dipped. And they stopped from dipping it any more because if they did the luster would have been completely destroyed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of all the grading criteria, on MS and PF coins quality of luster and eye appeal are the two most important, most heavily weighted grading criteria there are. In other words, eye appeal affects the grade more than anything else except quality of luster.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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