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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 3168235, member: 1765&quot;]The key takeaway from the video in this case was that dark toning that&#039;s &quot;burned&quot; into the surface is cause for environmental damage.&nbsp; Had the black half dime been subsequently circulated, the fields would have remained black, and you&#039;d eventually see the cameo effect you see on your coin, except with darker, uglier fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the no-grade designations do not have easily observed thresholds, and environmental damage isn&#039;t one of them.&nbsp; Moreover, as graders and customers change, these gray areas shift.&nbsp; I will post a circulated Mercury dime tonight that I think would qualify for environmental damage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the three coins you linked above, the VF is an ugly coin.&nbsp; It will never sell for the price asked, and the seller will be lucky to get $3000 for it.&nbsp; It was slabbed before PCGS noted problems on the holder, and perhaps was given a net grade of 25.&nbsp; It&#039;s a good candidate for ED today, which is probably why it remains in that holder, which I think represents a low point of PCGS&#039;s grading.&nbsp; The MS66 coin is probably OK in hand.&nbsp; I think the picture makes the toning look worse than it is, because it&#039;s not showing the luster well.&nbsp; The AG3 coin is a dark picture.&nbsp; The fields aren&#039;t uniformly dark, and the coin probably looks better under some decent light.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking through the auctions cited in CoinFacts for large swings in price at the VG-F range, but didn&#039;t find much.&nbsp; There are some slightly nicer, slightly more expensive coins in each of the grades, but nothing really jumps out one way or another, other than a rather slick VG10 that didn&#039;t sell for as much as other VG10s (which, looking at the coins there, is what I now think your coin graded).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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