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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PlanoSteve, post: 3364387, member: 91609&quot;][USER=97181]@TylerH[/USER], I&#039;m late to this party but I&#039;ll add my 2 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no question the obverse has been cleaned.&nbsp; As [USER=99642]@Hookman[/USER] pointed out, the gunk around the devices &amp; date are a dead giveaway.&nbsp; At one time, the obverse looked exactly the same as the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>With coins, there&#039;s really only 2 options:&nbsp; cleaned or not cleaned.&nbsp; It&#039;s like a pregnant coin - it&#039;s either pregnant or it&#039;s not - there is no &quot;almost&quot; or &quot;maybe&quot; about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, it does not appear to have been harshly cleaned (don&#039;t expect to always see scratches), but it is cleaned.&nbsp; And that doesn&#039;t necessarily preclude ownership (except for some &quot;finicky&quot; collectors).&nbsp; Some of us would appreciate a nice specimen like this, &amp; I have quite a few which have been cleaned (by others, not me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) but I chose to acquire them anyway. Perhaps a previous owner cleaned it as a hole filler for an album?&nbsp; Or like me, just to have a sample that I don&#039;t usually collect, but want to have a specimen (the advantage is you usually get them cheap <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say, for $9, you got a nice 136 yr old coin!!&nbsp; Congrats! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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