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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jimij, post: 141131, member: 5475&quot;]I found in a few of my books where they said the early 3 cent nickel proofs were very prone to spotting.</p><p>After looking at a few others in other autions many of them show the same type of spotting for that grade. Some worse. Although the image of this coin at the auction house showed no signs of spotting even when zoomed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It may be just the picture I took. Doesn&#039;t look that bad in person. Its such a small coin its hard to get a good picture. Plus I was using some metal halide lamps that are extremely bright. Here it is under a regular bulb.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0386.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0386.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0386.jpg</a></p><p>and they did grade it 64</p><p><a href="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0318.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0318.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/jjenno/DSCF0318.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think I probably will keep it. After paying shipping and there being a fee to return it plus more shipping costs I might as well. You really can&#039;t notice the spots unless looking very closely. I&#039;ll be more inclined in the future to buy proofs graded higher and from coin shows or other places where I can observe them first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the responses. :hail:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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