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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3633499, member: 105098"]it's a real shame the center bands on the reverse are merged and not split like the top and bottom bands are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the reverse looks like there progressive indirect die transfer (PIDT), looks like the outline of libertys head showing through to the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>the pictures with different lighting's help quite a bit, depending on the lighting you can see some things in pictures, and in others you don't see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems legit to me and original luster, it's not a candidate for full bands (FB) designation, It will definitely grade in mint state, probably mid mintstate, but I can't really say how high or low it grades. I'm not sure how it would grade due to the PIDT, it would be caused by late stage die deterioration, also the softness of the design elements on the obverse and the sharpness of the reverse, with the exception of the center bands. Grading is objective, and opinionated for the most part. Someone might decide to grade by luster and number of contact marks and not weigh the strike to heavily, another might take the strike and weigh more heavily on that as the starting point, and luster and contact marks all secondary bringing it further down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel good about saying original surfaces, mid-mint state. Might go lower, might go higher depending on the graders determination in hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as cleaning really goes, dealers properly dip or clean coins all the time and know what they are doing. It's the improperly cleaned, or over cleaned coins that lack luster and dead on eye appeal that are the ungradeable, problem coins. </p><p>Plenty of reasons to clean a coin, and if done right, the Third party graders will grade them no problem at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3633499, member: 105098"]it's a real shame the center bands on the reverse are merged and not split like the top and bottom bands are. Also the reverse looks like there progressive indirect die transfer (PIDT), looks like the outline of libertys head showing through to the reverse. the pictures with different lighting's help quite a bit, depending on the lighting you can see some things in pictures, and in others you don't see it. Seems legit to me and original luster, it's not a candidate for full bands (FB) designation, It will definitely grade in mint state, probably mid mintstate, but I can't really say how high or low it grades. I'm not sure how it would grade due to the PIDT, it would be caused by late stage die deterioration, also the softness of the design elements on the obverse and the sharpness of the reverse, with the exception of the center bands. Grading is objective, and opinionated for the most part. Someone might decide to grade by luster and number of contact marks and not weigh the strike to heavily, another might take the strike and weigh more heavily on that as the starting point, and luster and contact marks all secondary bringing it further down. I feel good about saying original surfaces, mid-mint state. Might go lower, might go higher depending on the graders determination in hand. As far as cleaning really goes, dealers properly dip or clean coins all the time and know what they are doing. It's the improperly cleaned, or over cleaned coins that lack luster and dead on eye appeal that are the ungradeable, problem coins. Plenty of reasons to clean a coin, and if done right, the Third party graders will grade them no problem at all.[/QUOTE]
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