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<p>[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 3266647, member: 77413"]I don't personally see why it wouldn't be a high AU. The high points seem clean and sharp. However it does look like some flattening in the fields and a certain lack of "freshness" where it looks like it has been handled.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will support your concerns with a second example. After I got this coin, there was a lengthy "What did I do?" period of buyer's remorse. I saw a myriad of lines in the fields and thought certainly I had bought a harshly cleaned ungradable example. I've overcome that now, and think the softness of the surface, combined with the smallness of the coin, make for photos that exaggerate any small marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The blast-whiteness of this one also has to be held down or else these dimes can hardly be photographed at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]860599[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RonSanderson, post: 3266647, member: 77413"]I don't personally see why it wouldn't be a high AU. The high points seem clean and sharp. However it does look like some flattening in the fields and a certain lack of "freshness" where it looks like it has been handled. I will support your concerns with a second example. After I got this coin, there was a lengthy "What did I do?" period of buyer's remorse. I saw a myriad of lines in the fields and thought certainly I had bought a harshly cleaned ungradable example. I've overcome that now, and think the softness of the surface, combined with the smallness of the coin, make for photos that exaggerate any small marks. The blast-whiteness of this one also has to be held down or else these dimes can hardly be photographed at all. [ATTACH=full]860599[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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