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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 125667, member: 2972&quot;]Mark,&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The colors may just be a bit off in your photos/scans.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I questioned the color was, specifically, that the protected areas around the devices are lighter than the devices themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the type of look you often see on a high grade cent, but I have never once seen it in an original coin below XF grade.&nbsp; Yet your coin is clearly worn below XF.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would expect the look of a coin this worn to be more even, and if anything, darker in the protected areas around the devices.&nbsp; Take a look at the areas around, for instance, the first star (the one closest to the 1 in the date).&nbsp;&nbsp; This is also seen in the areas in front of Liberty&#039;s lips and along her neck and upper chest.</p><p>&nbsp; See how it is lighter in that area immediately bordering the star?&nbsp; It should be darker than the star. </p><p>The type of look I&#039;m talking about is clearly evident on the following example:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/58376100/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/58376176/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you see how your coin has kind of an opposte look to the above coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>The other think that lead me to say it had been cleaned was the color.&nbsp; A classic head large cent in anything but AU or MS should be dark in color.&nbsp; They simply don&#039;t exist red like the picture of the obverse of your coin shows.&nbsp; That is a tell-tale sign of a cleaned and retoned coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really hope I am wrong and your photos/scans are just off, but if the coin is how the pictures look and it is original, I will eat a large cent out of my collection...Mike</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. I don&#039;t mean to criticize your dealer, but remember he only makes money if he convinces you to buy a coin.&nbsp; I have no such motivation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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