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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 25743086, member: 105571&quot;]I bought these two coins long before I got my 10/30X stereo microscope.&nbsp; So, I looked at the area in question on the reverse of the &#039;53.&nbsp; There is a slight &quot;L&quot; shaped indentation above the top left of N.&nbsp; What appears in the photo to be a &quot;box&quot; is actually a series of more-or-less parallel squiggly scratches.&nbsp; They are not traditional cleaning hairlines but look more like someone used a tool to remove something.&nbsp; But they cannot be seen individually except at between 10X and 30X.&nbsp; This makes me think this coin would likely get a &quot;Details-Tooled&quot; grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;47 half dime is very clean for a EF/AU coin and the fact is has toned so nicely makes me think it was dipped and then retoned, either naturally or artifically, I cannot determine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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