Does this look cleaned?

ASUtodd · January 7, 2009 2:15AM

I got this sometime back, not sure were or from whom, but I was wondering if you guys thought it looked cleaned. I know I don't take the best pics and it may be hard to tell but the coin has some hairlines on it that I can't tell if they are from a cleaning, the dies during production, or just normal handling or wear and tear... Any thoughts are appreciated. (You have to get the light just right to see them sometimes, maybe it's just my paranoia)

JCMhouston · January 7, 2009 2:41AM

The obverse looks cleaned from the images, but it can be hard to tell from a pic.

theboz11 · January 7, 2009 2:42AM

Die polish marks do not generally run into the bust. They are raised from the surface. Cleaning marks are grooves in the surface and carry from the fields and onto and across the bust

ajaan · January 7, 2009 3:59AM

Yes

ASUtodd · January 7, 2009 4:00AM

I figured it was cleaned on the obverse but looking at it in person you just get that feeling that it wasn't a cleaning that did it... The reverse looks great so I have no idea what happened. more than likely it was cleaned. I know that I did not pay a large amount for the coin because of where I have it stored but none the less... I still think it's PURDY... Thanks guys!

goossen · January 8, 2009 12:02AM

yes, it looks cleaned to me...

coinkat · January 8, 2009 8:24AM

yes

zeebob · January 8, 2009 8:29AM

Roger that, cleaned.

lordmarcovan · January 8, 2009 11:01AM

Polished a bit. Not unacceptably so, though, to my eyes. Enough to discount it a little, but not enough to kill it. It is still a handsome piece, and I like the secondary peripheral toning on the obverse.

pheh · January 8, 2009 11:52AM

wiped and retoning from your pics. not your a coin you want if you are a slab junkie. perfectly acceptable and attractive unc detail example to the rest of us.