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Message:: [QUOTE="robp, post: 13699501, member: 96746"]I'm happy based on the matching toning it is Adams 688 and with an almost certain sense of conviction it is also ex Spink 50, 'Property of a Gentleman in the Orient' lot 801. The header to this section is however somewhat disturbing in that it says that "N.B. The majority of the silver coins have been subjected to cleaning. Where this is NOT the case, specific mention is made hereunder". Lot 801 is described as "Artificially toned, otherwise brilliant and practically as struck, very  rare". This lot doesn't state uncleaned, so the AT was presumably hiding an old cleaning based on no mention of uncleaned. Whatever, it was bought in 1986 by Grantham Coins (Peter Wallwork). At the Adams sale it was described as light rim bruise under date, attractively toned, mint state, very rare. Unfortunately Colin's notes don't indicate where he purchased it from, listing only a number of examples, so it could have come from anywhere - Spink, Baldwin, one of many dealers. Presumably in the interim it had been dipped to remove the AT?[/QUOTE]