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<p>[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 25953371, member: 104064"]Submit it somewhere else and perhaps ask for conservation service evaluation. You're probably better at identifying lacquer than me though. I couldn't tell at all. Similar to yours, less than 200 of this variety (Canada 1947 50c Maple Leaf curved right 7) were struck for both circulation and specimens. Before and after pics below. See that squiggle next to ET? (expand the pic) Under a microscope there was a bristle looking thing in the squiggle. I was convinced it was retained strike-through of bits of brush they used to polish the die. Also note the tiny pits in the fields. All that stuff was in the lacquer, and probably some "hairlines" in it from when the lacquer was applied. Now it's all gone. Just an example of how PCGS screws up I guess. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1651640[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 25953371, member: 104064"]Submit it somewhere else and perhaps ask for conservation service evaluation. You're probably better at identifying lacquer than me though. I couldn't tell at all. Similar to yours, less than 200 of this variety (Canada 1947 50c Maple Leaf curved right 7) were struck for both circulation and specimens. Before and after pics below. See that squiggle next to ET? (expand the pic) Under a microscope there was a bristle looking thing in the squiggle. I was convinced it was retained strike-through of bits of brush they used to polish the die. Also note the tiny pits in the fields. All that stuff was in the lacquer, and probably some "hairlines" in it from when the lacquer was applied. Now it's all gone. Just an example of how PCGS screws up I guess. [ATTACH=full]1651640[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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