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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 5041621, member: 29751&quot;]The images from CRO are below.&nbsp; While they are brighter, my images are more accurate to the look of the coin in hand (it has dark toned surfaces, and you only see the bright greens and yellows seen in the images below if you tip it into a light source at just the &quot;right&quot; angle).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a 300 year old coin, and silver doesn&#039;t stay bright with age - unless dipped out like (sadly) so many British coins have been (across the pond there seems to be a much higher preference for dipped/white coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, let me remind people that coins struck from this period have a very different type of &quot;luster&quot; from modern coinage.&nbsp; They were struck using much different die production technology and pre-industrial coinage presses.&nbsp; The &quot;luster&quot; is more similar to what would be called a proof-like coin nowadays.&nbsp; One area of numismatics where this is very evident is in the production of Talers and German state coins pre-1780s or so.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://brgphoto.com/images/photo14/1740_S2D_Klippe_NGC_MS62_CRO_image_composite_gray_nolabel_zpsfd214d51.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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