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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2822905, member: 24314&quot;]Goodmorning everyone. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Remember, the following are opinions so please don&#039;t hate the messenger. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I&#039;m going to start with the easy one first.</p><p><br /></p><p>ToughCOINS, posted: &quot;<font size="5">At the opposite end of the &quot;W</font><font size="6"><font size="4"><font size="5">hat the heck are you thinking, ANACS?&quot; spectrum...</font></font>Needless to say, I&#039;ll be breaking this lady out of jail.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6">IMHO, your coin is correctly graded as a <b><span style="color: #b30000">FINE </span></b>no more no less.&nbsp; It is <b><span style="color: #ff0000">NOT VF</span></b> although I should price it as a VF-20.&nbsp;&nbsp; I personally would have preferred F-15.&nbsp; &quot;Gradeflation&quot; and the introduction of loose standards to the new collectors have driven all of you into attack frenzy.&nbsp; </font></p><p><br /></p><p>NEXT:&nbsp; I disagree with many of the following comments:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;See the light reddish surfaces? And how the gunk, especially on the reverse, is bunched up against the tight devices? <span style="color: #b300b3">Bunched up gunk is commonly found on copper coins.&nbsp; The raised relief edges are places that retain crud. </span>That means someone rubbed the surface to remove the dirt and gunk,<span style="color: #b300b3"> Why is it still there?</span>&nbsp; and it brightened <span style="color: #b300b3">(?)</span> the fields and higher surfaces. <span style="color: #b300b3">There is nothing &quot;brightened&quot; on this coin.</span> So what we have here is a cleaned coin, with some <b>light environmental damage/discoloration.</b>&quot; <span style="color: #b300b3">This coin is not cleaned. There is <b>light environmental damage/discoloration </b>as the poster wrote.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Maybe the submitter sent in a dozen coins or more and they were all problem coins, and since this one was the least atrocious, ANACS cut him a break. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&quot;...<b>you have to details this coin</b>, no matter how disappointed you make someone. <span style="color: #b300b3"> Agree.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Copper coins that are this age and have this amount of wear are not even the slightest shade of red. This color is unnatural. <span style="color: #b300b3">Agree, there is no &quot;Mint Red&quot; on this coin.&nbsp; The &quot;unnatural red&quot; color on this coin is actually a NATURAL shade of copper oxidation.&nbsp; It is not due to cleaning.&nbsp; A little conservation could make the 1/2C a beauty.&nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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