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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2569753, member: 77413&quot;]I think the seller&#039;s photos were OK with the color. Here is a yellow post-it, so you can color-correct the image if you like. But you can also see how it compares to a regular brown cent, too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]555554[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next up, an attempt to show some of the luster, such as it is. You can see some of its general glow around the edges; of course that&#039;s protected from most mistreatment anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I&#039;m not here to defend this coin, but to understand it. The seller took it to another dealer, who removed some PVC deposition and concurred that, in-hand, it did not look cleaned. So I am trying to learn a few things. Chief among them,</p><ul> <li>are we too quick to jump to &quot;cleaned&quot; for every low-luster coin</li> <li>are there minting processes that naturally produce coins with less luster</li> <li>can a coin with die polish marks ever have been cleaned, or does cleaning always destroy polish marks</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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