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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bikergeek, post: 22221814, member: 112428&quot;]I don&#039;t see any evidence of any kind of harsh cleaning here, and I think this is a nice example of a 53, with some nice grunge on it. I suspect that the consensus here is right - namely, that a collector put something on this coin. (As opposed to say, dirt picked up during commerce: some grubby waif using this coin at the local general store for a loaf of bread and a pound of flour.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have alternative ideas:</p><p>1. Dried salt from the tears of a half-dime specialist who, after buying the coin raw thinking he was cherrypicking an LM-5 R7, found it was an LM-10 R1 and cried a little. ([USER=77091]@Publius[/USER] gets this even if some folks don&#039;t; shared reverse P)</p><p>2. Wax left over from Dentil Floss. Get it? Dentil? Dental? </p><p><br /></p><p>ahem, I&#039;ll see myself out...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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