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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tommybee, post: 979636, member: 24999&quot;]It has been cleaned.&nbsp; There are hairlines all over it.&nbsp; I can&#039;t really tell if there is any evidence of circulation from the pictures.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any on the hair but the truncated part of the neck seems to show some.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don&#039;t feel bad.&nbsp; I did almost the same thing.&nbsp; When I first started I purchased a few raw Peace Dollars graded MS&nbsp; 60 to MS 63 by the dealer.&nbsp; Now that I know a lot more about grading and how to spot cleaned coins I can tell that two are clearly AU and the uncirculated one has hairlines ALL over it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They were common dates and I didn&#039;t pay more than $25 for any of them.&nbsp; Lesson learned.&nbsp; I keep them as a warning and to help my grading skills. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I wouldn&#039;t worry to much about paying $50 for a coin like this.&nbsp; It could have been way worse.&nbsp; I know guys that have bought raw gold coins and paid for a significant numismatic premium to find out later they had been cleaned.&nbsp; They came back bagged from NGC.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I only buy from NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; They are the most trusted and if I want to move some coins, slabs from those two TPG make your collection much more liquid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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