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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7880013, member: 105098&quot;]They aren&#039;t going to conserve a coin unless you approve for it to happen, unless somehow do it by mistake but I can&#039;t think of any time I&#039;ve heard of that happening, they make money off the service.</p><p><br /></p><p>if they do conserve it, it&#039;s not going to get a cleaned details designation, they will advise against it being conserved if it appears it will not improve the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>could the coins get mixed up and confused? Possible I suppose but they have plenty of measures in place to keep that from happening.&nbsp; but this is the same coin in all pictures, so this isn&#039;t an accidental switcheroo. </p><p><br /></p><p>your pictures are clearly on a steep angle,&nbsp; theirs are straight on, and light sources are different locations. this is everything with how a toned coin photographs. Angle is necessary in order to get the toning to &quot;pop&quot; on a camera, otherwise, it&#039;s not very visible. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it will look right when you have it in hand, However I also think that they are correct on the AU details cleaned. The reverse looks ok, the Obverse looks like it&#039;s had some work around the date and the lady in the fields that would get it pegged as cleaned in my opinion, from these pictures, maybe before you owned it, maybe a long time ago, but once the luster is impaired, it don&#039;t come back.&nbsp; Just off the pictures of course, I&#039;d need to see it in hand to know for sure but spots on the obverse don&#039;t reflect right and look flat and dull compared to other areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just one persons opinion on this. comparing the two it&#039;s the same coin, lighting and angle makes all the difference in the world on how a coin photographs moreso with silver and toning than copper.</p><p>&nbsp;A sample of my experiments with different Kelvins (temperature of the light).</p><p>Incadescent is more like the top one a warm light. 3000K</p><p>Middle is a halogen or LED cool light 7000K</p><p>Bottom is a neutral &quot;daylight&quot;&nbsp; 4000K not too yellow, not too blue.</p><p>the paper is a white sheet of paper. I&#039;d say, wait to see it in hand. It&#039;s going to be lighting why the toning isn&#039;t popping, a camera doesn&#039;t function exactly like an eye does. </p><p><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/BIG-KINGDOM/20190519_IMG_2019-05-19_17-03-58_zpsjwhriabs_edit_1558307945685-ccfopt-ccfopt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/BIG-KINGDOM/20190520_IMG_2019-05-20_08-52-46_zpsanm7tmzw_edit_1558357500693-ccfopt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/BIG-KINGDOM/20190520_IMG_2019-05-20_08-54-57_zpsbq1kpkua_edit_1558357558154-ccfopt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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