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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TyCobb, post: 3249183, member: 99137&quot;]Having been toying with the idea to start looking into Commemoratives, I have been eyeing the 1892 and 1893 Columbian Expositions and the current year&#039;s WWI. Well, eBay for the expos looked like a major crap-shoot. Even the novice I am could see the nice looking ones were of cleaned coins (even feedback for other coins were complaining once they sent it in for grading). Those coins were also going for $18-$20 minimum. Even some of the slabbed versions seemed odd. They may be legit, but I really need to know how a coin that can look like mud gets an MS grade (The TPG has no pictures for the one I am actually referring to). </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhoo, here&#039;s what I ended up with. The 1893 has a couple of marks, but looked really good. Now maybe they were cleaned at some point, but I&#039;d much prefer learning on ones I can&#039;t tell on <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1892</p><p>[ATTACH]852155[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]852156[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>1893</p><p>[ATTACH]852157[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]852158[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While there I also decided to grab the 2002 West Point Bicentennial (the line under the O is one of my hairs on the case <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) It&#039;s got some brown toning happening on the flags. Little hard to see in the pics as it needs to be tilted more to the side to see more of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]852159[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]852160[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Just thought I would share.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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