Altered surfaces,What does this usually mean?

TennesseeDave

This coin is for sale on E-bay by someone unknown to me and they say in the description that Pcgs bagged it for altered surfaces.What do you think this means.Dipped in some harsh chemical?The color looks off,but that is about all that I can determine from the sellers pics.

fc

i think altered surfaces in this case means dipped and the coloring
of the surfaces is just plain wrong.

but it can mean many things..

BlindedByEgo

Way overdipped and treated to restore some kind of non-shiny surface. But altered can mean a lot of things - except original.

LindeDad

She put on too much makeup!!!!

SamByrd

overdipped for sure, this coin needs to be stabilzed and placed in a nice quiet album for 20 years to recover a little of its forner self.

BrunosGhost

In general, what does this do to a coin's value? Let's say for instance it was a ms 64 FB 1919 D Merc that came back Altered Surface from PCGS. What is the value? A friend of mine has a coin like this.

PS My "friend" noticed that there were spiky looking die marks on the L B and T in LIBERTY as well as similarly shaped and sized "gouges" at 1 and 7 o clock on this coin. Forms somewhat of a star pattern. Is this a common die defect for this year?

edit found this link with the pic of a coin with similar cracks/breaks.
Link

rjsriv

sometimes it means the TPG's want to get more $$$ from you through regrading