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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhoggman, post: 414803, member: 13987&quot;]I am probably going to be the only naysayer here, I am going to say his coin is not MS. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It does not look like a circulated coin in the traditional sense that it was used for &quot;exchange&quot; purposes, but there are a couple of things that seem weird to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all (maybe it is the lighting), but the rims appear to have been, and maybe still be dirty, and blackened. Also there are dark spots on the coin which usually on gold mean they have been thumbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>There also seems to be milky spots on the coin, maybe from a cleaning of some sort.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be honest.... I have some quarter, and half eagles that are easily mistaken for MS coin, and look very nice with clean fields, but IMO are all high end AU.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also believe more than other type coins, gold type coins are found slabbed MS when they should not be. Gold cleans up so well when done right that IMO it fools people. Although circulated gold coins with shabby fields can&#039;t escape their true nature, lightly circulated gold with clean enough fields can slip through the cracks. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think this coin was cleaned, and happens to be one of those that now passes for a nice MS63 example. In reality at another time it was a AU58 coin due to light rub, and maybe some accumulated dirt/ debris.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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