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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 154504, member: 112&quot;]Because it wasn&#039;t &quot;clean&quot; - it had some pretty heavy toning on it. Whoever cleaned it thought it would sell for more if it was &quot;clean&quot;. And how can I say this ? It just takes experience. You have to know what you are looking at and what it is that you see when you see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>One obvious sign are the lines on the obverse - those are light scratches from cleaning. Another sign is the tiny bits of dark left in the protected corners and crevices of the devices. Still another are the dark spots on the obverse that you can kind of see through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaned coins have a distinctive look that one can recognize when you have seen enough of them - like I said, it&#039;s experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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