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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25299462, member: 101855"]Two Cent Pieces can come with "delicate strikes" although that often happened at the end of series. Here is an 1870 that is not a great strike, but it has very little wear. It would not have taken long to have worn this one down to VF. It is a "classic grade" EF. [ATTACH=full]1616136[/ATTACH] I think that the coin you bought was cleaned at one time and artificially recolored. The sort of grey color with the red copper peaking out here and there are the "tells" for cleaning and recoloring. Given the price, you did okay. A lot of dealers try to pass these pieces off with the "WE" in motto weak or even missing as "EF." They aren't EF if the "WE" is weak.[/QUOTE]