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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Morgan1878, post: 592243, member: 17869&quot;]I&#039;ve done a fair amount of art work..so I&#039;m pretty deft with my hands.</p><p>As I mentioned in the previous post, no additional marks were created by removing the coin. If you go to the opposite side (noon position) of the coin from the sun, you&#039;ll see a tab mark in the &quot;S&quot;. There is also a very small mark in the 3 o&#039;clock position. The fourth tab at the 9 o&#039;clock position (just above the eagle&#039;s beak) left no mark, but the coin is a very slightly different color. Oddly enough, my neighbor who is a rare U.S. gold coin dealer showed me a PCGC MS65 coin with marks that were bigger than anything on my coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There was no way I was going to leave it in the bezel which I considered to be pretty ugly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Removing this coin from it&#039;s bezel was far easier (due to the size of the tabs) then a 1881-S 5 dollar gold piece I removed from another bezel.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The tabs were far smaller which was good in one way in that they left no marks when the coin was originally placed in the bezel. Challenging in another way because one slip of my dremel would have resulted in some pretty meaningful damage. I&#039;ll post pictures of this coin later.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the coin losing value because it was &quot;ex-jewelry&quot;, I&#039;m not sure why that would affect it&#039;s value. I think the value of the coin should be determined by its condition.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As I mentioned in a previous post, I would grade it EF-40. I suspect that it has been lightly cleaned which of course would affect the grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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