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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4911398, member: 105098"]I'd agree, this coin isn't going to get MS, while the details are there,wheat grains, corn kernels, hair, headband, and the luster really isn't the be all end all, the coin overall (especially the cheek) has a light circulation wear, but enough of it to exclude it from Mint state, It's nice, the details are there for it to be MS, but it's got way too many little scratches to be simple contact marks and still MS. </p><p><br /></p><p>in fact, I'm not entirely certain they won't tag it as MS details cleaned once they have it in hand and a bit of magnification to look at the cheek and field in front of the face and above and below One Dime on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>it's got nothing to do with luster or tarnish really, if it has signs of wear beyond incidental contact or bag marks, it won't be mint state anymore. I'm just not seeing it making MS unless it gets details for the troubling areas I noted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4911398, member: 105098"]I'd agree, this coin isn't going to get MS, while the details are there,wheat grains, corn kernels, hair, headband, and the luster really isn't the be all end all, the coin overall (especially the cheek) has a light circulation wear, but enough of it to exclude it from Mint state, It's nice, the details are there for it to be MS, but it's got way too many little scratches to be simple contact marks and still MS. in fact, I'm not entirely certain they won't tag it as MS details cleaned once they have it in hand and a bit of magnification to look at the cheek and field in front of the face and above and below One Dime on the reverse. it's got nothing to do with luster or tarnish really, if it has signs of wear beyond incidental contact or bag marks, it won't be mint state anymore. I'm just not seeing it making MS unless it gets details for the troubling areas I noted.[/QUOTE]
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