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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 577523, member: 4920&quot;]Houston3204, they do look great, but just a caveat, and I&#039;m not trying to knock them by bringing this up. The 43 cents I&#039;ve seen in the higher grades all have one thing these don&#039;t have, and that&#039;s &quot;cartwheel effect,&quot; which is a result, for the most part, as I understand it, of the state of preservation of the mint flow lines. These, by contrast, look great, but for the most part &quot;flat.&quot; I&#039;m not saying, &quot;dull.&quot; They&#039;re certainly reflective. But you have them in-hand, and you just showed us some before-and-after photos, and I&#039;m going to bet they don&#039;t reflect the way the higher mint state grades reflect (in that characteristic circular, &quot;cartwheel&quot; pattern). Bottom-line, no dipping is going to restore mint flow lines. These are shiny, and they may even trick a TPG and slab MS, but, if so, I kind of doubt any of them are going to grade over, I&#039;ll be generous, Choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, let me put this into context, I think I&#039;m going to try this on some of my junker 43s, just, if anything, to see it for myself. But, a couple of things. One, I&#039;m not going to try it on anything that &quot;cartwheels&quot; (however slightly); and, two, I&#039;m not going to expect to end up with any Gems. If you could get us bigger, clearer photos of these, too (one of them, at least, front and back), I&#039;d love to see them. To do that, just use your camera&#039;s largest size setting, and save the image as a JPEG at the lowest JPEG Quality Setting (in my photo suite, that&#039;s 25), and that should get the file under 250KB.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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