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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8135845, member: 105571&quot;]This coin looks like the OC-1 die marriage which pairs Obverse 1 and Reverse A.&nbsp; Rarity is R-1 so a common coin if any LS dollar can properly be considered common.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have included the cropped obverse and reverse photos plus blow-ups of the relevant die markers on the OP&#039;s coin below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as to this specific coin.&nbsp; The below are just my impressions from the two photographs provided and I do not pretend that my observations are authoritative or even correct.&nbsp; Things are hard to judge from only two so-so photos.&nbsp; That said;</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a greenish color pervading about 30% of the obverse and 20% of the reverse.&nbsp; That coloration does not look like toning and it is pretty splotchy over&nbsp; large areas.&nbsp; It looks remarkably like that on a LS dollar I saw a couple of years ago.&nbsp; That one was completely covered in PVC residue which lent it that same sort of dull, olive-drab coloration.&nbsp; So, I will just call this coloring on the OP coin &quot;PVC&quot; for the sake of convenience while acknowledging that it may be something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin doesn&#039;t appear to have any luster, which I would expect to see some of due to the low wear of the coin.&nbsp; Plus, the coin just looks to me like someone has tried to clean the PVC off and not done a very good job of it.&nbsp; On the plus side, I don&#039;t see any evidence of the pitting that might be expected under a heavy coating of PVC.&nbsp; Nor do I see any evidence of abrasive-type cleaning.&nbsp; So, as a speculation, do you suppose that someone tried to dip the coin (as opposed to using acetone) to remove PVC and thus only removed part of the PVC while destroying any luster that might have remained under the PVC?</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I would say if this coin was in a TPG slab, it would be graded as AU-50 to&nbsp; AU-53 and have a value of greater than $1K if it was without problems.&nbsp; But this coin appears to me to have problems which might explain why this 50 to 53 coin remains raw, i.e. the owner knows it would not straight-grade and thus won&#039;t submit it. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would please me no end to have someone refute my thoughts with reasoned arguments since I would undoubtedly learn something from the conversation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1417651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1417652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1417653[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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