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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 6179012, member: 101855&quot;]I agree. The Columbian half dollar is tough to grade. What looks like a rub on the cheek might be due to a less than perfect strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this one from a dealer who submitted it twice to PCGS for an upgrade beyond MS-63 in 1994. He gave up and I paid him MS-64 money for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245645[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1245646[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one was stored on the little pouch you see here for many years. It&#039;s still a raw coin. I collected it for the &quot;issue pouch.&quot; The pouch was really a third party add-on at the 1893 Exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245648[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin really looks like this. The first photo was overexposed because of the pouch. Yes, there is a finger print on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1245650[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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