Has ths coin been altered?

It appears to me that when looking at it magnified,the toning in the background has been painted it to enhance it. What do you think?

 

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Can't tell ya but it sure looks like it's had a cleaning done........

 

Look at the edge's of the bust and stars.

 

Not so much painted, but someone was trying to remove stuff and couldn't get it all away from the bust and stars.

 

Yes. The surfaces are not original.

 

It looks like whizzed or heavy polished. That's how to form halo around stars and bust.

 

Just a poor job of scrubbing. . . Kinda like cleaning the kitchen floor around the dog dishes.

 

My opinion is it's not from removing material it's laying down material as in a liquid. The reverse of the coin does not have this look because it is to small and detailed to apply it in the same manner.

 

I agree, whenever I see something systematic looking patterns on a coin I think it has been quizzed. Still worth something of course since many will look for a high grade coin at a deep discount.

 

Looks like a rim ding. It doesn't look retooled.

 

I will go along with cleaned coin.

 

Looks like the color saturation has been taken out of the image.

 

Definitely a cleaned coin and not a very good cleaning.

 

definitely cleaned, probably with a rag so they weren't able to get the borders of the face and stars

 

Looks like it was in one of those blue folders we used to take a pencil eraser to when I was in grade school. Got them all nice and shiney back in the 50's.

 

It's a pity, the coin's grade is pretty high... but no matter what they did, it's just another problem coin now.

 

This coin sold at Ebay auction for $245 it was offered to me for $145.

 

That coin has been very abused. Agree to the color saturation comment as well.