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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dctjr80, post: 939853, member: 15915&quot;]I am far from an expert, but I would say that plating it in any way would destroy its mint lust... mint luster is that hourglass cart wheel effect that a coin has as you turn it under a light. That mint luster is created by the way the metal flows when it is struck and is impossible to recreate. If it were over dipped in acid which is most likely the case or cleaned or plated it would be real real shiny and mirror like reflective, but when you held it under a light and rotated it you would see little or no hour glass cartwheel effect at all, meaning it has been seriously damaged and devalued in a numismatic sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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