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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 682619, member: 4336&quot;]I&#039;ve talked to several people about this, including mark. Gold doesn&#039;t typically re-tone, especially like this one. The area&#039;s around the stars are also where the luster still is, the coin was probably once more PL, and as it wore down from circulation only the protected areas of the coin remained with luster and semi PL on the obverse. It may have be dipped sometime ago in its past, but I doubt it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen numberous quarter eagles like this and it is just how they were made..it has nothing to do with a dipping or cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really bothers me when people say this, because I have to explain it to them, I think it&#039;s an orgininal coin and every dealer I&#039;ve shown it to in hand thought so, as well as CAC, mark, and NGC. You can also talk to physicsfan on NGC.......he said this to me:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The thing is, in photographs online, the luster around the stars can appear similar to an effect of cleaning - for good reason. When a coin is cleaned, the protected areas around stars and in lettering are the areas which don&#039;t get polished - just as these same areas are the ones which retain their original luster the longest in circulation. For this reason, when looking at a picture online, when these areas look different, as they do on your coin, it is sometimes a tipoff that it might have been cleaned.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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