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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffC, post: 3383437, member: 90913&quot;]I wish I had the 3 days for a &quot;live&quot; ANA grading course in Colorado.&nbsp; But for now, that&#039;s not possible, and so I read up as much as I can, when time allows.&nbsp; Here, I&#039;d really appreciate some professional input and comments.&nbsp; (Please pardon and bear with me if my question is silly or the if answer is obvious to professional eyes.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Have a look at this IHC.&nbsp; The details are still very sharp.&nbsp; It weighs 3.13 g. (vs. 3.11 g officially, but I believe that&#039;s within the standard deviation).&nbsp; It&#039;s &quot;shiny&quot; in a brilliant and lustrous sense, not in a satiny and dull sense (although that&#039;s not apparent in my photo).&nbsp; There&#039;s no &quot;dirt&quot; around or within the loops of the characters.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t fine scratches.&nbsp; But one feature that I don&#039;t see is the &quot;Cartwheel Effect&quot; and so my question is whether the absence of that effect automatically means a coin has been cleaned.&nbsp; Okay - I know nothing is fully black-and-white.&nbsp; Few rules are absolute and there may be other compensating factors.&nbsp; But perhaps, if one tries to quantify it, would you say that the absence of the cartwheel effect means a 90% probability that a coin has been cleaned? 95%? 80%? 75%?&nbsp; In this particular case, do you feel that this IHC has been cleaned?</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, for me personally, regardless of cleaning, I still see it as a beautiful coin to have.&nbsp; I wanted to know mainly for education.&nbsp; As always, thank you all for your help.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]898460[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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