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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2894431, member: 87737&quot;]The grade may surprise you all. I did a GTG on two forums, and nobody recognized it as being a cleaned coin. I posted the second set of photos in case the first set was throwing people off, but you all still graded it straight. I also sent the original huge photo files to 2 members here (and 1 on another forum) to see if they could see anything indicative of a cleaning. Nobody could find anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went yesterday to my local dealer, with the grade taped over (so as not to sway his grade), and asked him to evaluate and grade the coin. He looked at it for a long time, then finally looked up and said &quot;AU Details - Improperly Cleaned&quot;. I asked him what he saw that made him say it was improperly cleaned, and he said there are no hairlines, or other indicators that are obvious, but he felt the color of the metal was just a hair off, and the cartwheel luster is there, but not &#039;in your face&#039; type of cartwheel, leading him to believe that at some point in the past (his guess was 20-40 years ago), it was probably dipped and not rinsed correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>He felt the UNC grading was justifiable, albeit a true slider that slid over to the MS/UNC side.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the slab -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]696070[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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