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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 608098, member: 4580&quot;]I believe what we are seeing around the date is patina, and in places we don&#039;t see it, it has been ground off, rubbed, off, whizzed off.&nbsp; Those areas seem to be retoning, as mentioned. Colors are not right, and immediately shout &quot;CHEMICAL CLEANING.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The devices now exhibit what is sometimes referred to as &#039;funky wear,&#039; which is wear from friction other than normal flat wear, i.e., from cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, I believe the cud area has been tooled somewhat.&nbsp; See the deeper impressions and irregular groove ground into the cud between field and rim.&nbsp; And the top of the cud seems too flat now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect it was buried and its ultra-thick patina partially resulting from environmental damage. I&#039;m rather confident that the coin was buried for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are my impressions and I could be wrong about some of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Few coins receive this much illicit attention, imho.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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