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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1115669, member: 19463&quot;]This coin has many things to recommend it but the surfaces and toning make me believe it was fully cleaned once and either artificially or naturally retoned.&nbsp; When I first collected US coins as a kid, I don&#039;t recall seeing many rainbow toned silver dollars.&nbsp; Now they are a fad of the market.&nbsp; Perhaps that has something to do with them being 50 years older now.&nbsp; I expect them to become gray in another fifty years so I&#039;m not sure I see long term profit in paying extra for the colorful ones.&nbsp; Ancients with this color must be cleaned and retoning since &#039;natural&#039; color for ancients would be dark gray or black.&nbsp; Time will tell and the young among you will be able to check and see if I was right.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In private correspondance with mat on this coin, I was not impressed with its surfaces because the cleaning seemed a little harsh for my tastes.&nbsp; I may have been too hard on the coin considering the almost complete lack of wear and the fact that the reverse type is special.&nbsp; We all have pet peeves and I am hard on coins that look harshly cleaned even after they retone to a point of being pretty.&nbsp; This is a nice coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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