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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bghennessy, post: 1697500, member: 44051&quot;]Ahhh - I was afraid of that. The dealer owns a store here in town, so I&#039;m not too worried that it is counterfeit. However, I was concerned that it may have been cleaned. Are there any pointers you could offer me going forward how to tell if a gold coin has been cleaned? I looked carefully for small surface scratches to see if it had been &quot;whizzed,&quot; etc, but you picked up on something I didn&#039;t. Any help in this area would be appreciated. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my thought in getting it graded would be to confirm that I did spot a nice example and had applied what I&#039;d learned to make a good buy. If it graded at least XF which was what I was hoping for at least - I would have done pretty good on my purchase price. If you&#039;re right and it&#039;s been cleaned - then... maybe not so good! </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, thanks for your post, and any further clues that helped you pick up on it having been cleaned would be much appreciated![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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