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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3786126, member: 77413&quot;]I have been looking for one of these for a while now but they were all too pricey for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I seriously looked at <a href="https://www.davidlawrence.com/rare-coin/1861721" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.davidlawrence.com/rare-coin/1861721" rel="nofollow">this offering at David Lawrence.</a> It said “cleaned” but the photos didn’t look so bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1010977[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1010980[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When I got the package it was in a corrugated cardboard adhesive wrapper, with a layer of bubble wrap taped around it, inside a padded&nbsp; mailer. And yet, the slab was cracked on both sides right across the middle of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that it’s graded at the very bottom of the MS scale, I had nothing to lose by cracking it a bit more. Say, completely.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is extremely shiny. I had to shorten the exposure quite a lot to eliminate blowout on the reflective hot spots. I am thrilled with the luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it’s cleaned; maybe it’s not that important to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013085[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I had a problem with my white balance, so this is a replacement image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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