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<p>[QUOTE="johnny54321, post: 767884, member: 13342"]Thanks for the info budgood! It will be well taken care of. And thanks for tending to all my questions.</p><p> </p><p>I have one more while you are here, since you have seen the coin in hand, why in your opinion did NGC grade it as cleaned? I don't really see hairlines, and it has more than adequate luster for the remaining details. It may have been overdipped at one point, but it sure has retoned. It does have a slight sheen to it, but there are a lot of these scrubbed up worse than this in problem free slabs. Did you expect it to come back as "cleaned" when you sent it in?</p><p> </p><p>GD, I agree it is not quite XF quality, but very close. In looking through Heritage auction archives, this one strikes me as being similar in detail level and contact marks. It is graded VF-35 by PCGS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnny54321, post: 767884, member: 13342"]Thanks for the info budgood! It will be well taken care of. And thanks for tending to all my questions. I have one more while you are here, since you have seen the coin in hand, why in your opinion did NGC grade it as cleaned? I don't really see hairlines, and it has more than adequate luster for the remaining details. It may have been overdipped at one point, but it sure has retoned. It does have a slight sheen to it, but there are a lot of these scrubbed up worse than this in problem free slabs. Did you expect it to come back as "cleaned" when you sent it in? GD, I agree it is not quite XF quality, but very close. In looking through Heritage auction archives, this one strikes me as being similar in detail level and contact marks. It is graded VF-35 by PCGS.[/QUOTE]
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