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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 26335351, member: 92655&quot;]AtlantaMan you aren’t half bad. You are being very fair in your assessments. Now one thing to keep in mind is that for years we did clean coins. Those that had been gently cleaned and “healed” over the years are generally deemed market acceptable and will straight grade. Those that were harshly cleaned are forever damaged goods……. At first blush I thought yours may have been harshly cleaned due to the prominence of the diagonal lines above the wing and on the reverse. But the more I look at it, I believe that may be what many would call a “woodie”… A woodie is a planchet where the alloys didn’t mix well leaving what looks like a wood grain surface. Not that unusual or anything but it does add interest to the piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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