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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 2438867, member: 31286&quot;]For your perusal and critique.&nbsp; This is one I own. It&#039;s graded XF45 PCGS.&nbsp; Nothing terribly special about it, no beautiful toning or anything, however it does have something that I have not seen on old silver in this grade range - luster - quite a lot of it, and on both faces. Some of it shows in the picture, but it is actually more lustrous that this pic.&nbsp; It&#039;s also a bit brighter.&nbsp; The luster is most prevalent around the devices - as would be expected - it isn&#039;t the result of polishing.&nbsp; It has as much luster as some of the coins I have that are graded AU 55 - although they are gold so it&#039;s hard to compare.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did send it to CAC even though I figured it had probably been dipped and as expected, it didn&#039;t CAC.&nbsp; Not surprising since nearly every old silver coin I&#039;ve seen with a CAC sticker (including my own) have dark toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question is - if this has been dipped, why doesn&#039;t it have dark residue around the devices like so many others? It&#039;s an issue with well known weak strike issues (as are so many of the early New Orleans coins) and it has pretty good detail - or so it seems to me. It&#039;s also far less common than the Philly issue and reasonably nice examples in lower collector grades seem rare.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]507851[/ATTACH] - an estimated survival rate of only 700 or so (PCGS estimate).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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