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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 288259, member: 9270&quot;]Saw a raw 1854 half cent this weekend with some &quot;contamination&quot; on it that I&#039;m not familiar with.</p><p>The coin was <u>well</u> struck and from what I could see would probably grade in the MS-64 to -66 brown range.</p><p><b>BUT</b></p><p>It had some strange (to me) surface contamination.</p><p>There was some orangish irregular 1-2mm spots on it particularly at 8-10 o&#039;clock on the obverse rim.</p><p>The spots <u>weren&#039;t</u> shiny. They looked matte.</p><p>But there was no missing them. Orangish on a brown coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any ideas what they were and what caused them?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would probably have bought the coin except for the &quot;something&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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