Guess the Genuine [answer guessed correctly]

rhedden

Guess the reason PCGS called my precious 1866 Seated Dollar Genuine.

I bought this coin in 1997 or so at a Syracuse ONA show, raw. I have had offers to buy it from several people over the years, as it has great eye appeal in hand. However, I did not look at it closely enough, and it graded Genuine last month. PCGS was right. Now see if you can guess the reason.

Crazy4Coins

Altered Surfaces


Nice looking coin.....

Billet7

Altered surfaces is my guess as well.

LindeDad

<< <i>Altered Surfaces


Nice looking coin..... >>



Smoothed out the fields.

ModCrewman

Altered surfaces was my first thought, but based upon the E of ONE on the reverse I'll make my second guess "Holed & Plugged".

Billet7

I don't know the series, but the date looks a bit off from the pics I'm looking at. Possibly a different die, but perhaps it's an altered date or removed mintmark...now I'm not sure.

Still looks like it's altered surfaces...but at least now I've covered my bases!

bigjpst

Like the coin! I am going to be different and say they didn't like the little rim ding right under the date.

Billet7

<< <i>Altered surfaces was my first thought, but based upon the E of ONE on the reverse I'll make my second guess "Holed & Plugged". >>




Interesting! I was thinking that the head was lacking a lot of detail for what is remaining on the rest of the coin...huh. Now I'm severely curious.

lasvegasteddy

my guess would be cleaned but i know it's something else

rhedden

So far, your guesses look like this:







Keep guessin'.......

guitarwes

tooled

JamesMurray

<< <i>my guess would be cleaned but i know it's something else >>



I thought cleaned as well.

Kaline6

Wow, I think that's a nice coin.

The shield on the reverse is much crisper than that on the obverse. Is it re-tooled?

Still a cool coin.

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fastfreddie

Re-engraved ever so slightly Ms. Liberty's gown.

lasvegasteddy

graffti on obverse?

sparky64

Maybe a little tooling was my first guess.
Looks a little crisp around the eagle but may be the photo/shadow.
Maybe a little putty action too?

I wouldn't have said that otherwise. Looks great to me.

AUandAG

tooled motto.

bob

DIMEMAN

All I see is smoothed services.

rhedden

graffti on obverse?


Teddy finally figured it out! Someone very lightly scratched their name into the obverse field to the right of Liberty's portrait, and over the years, it wore off. It's so faint that I can't even read it, but you can still see the evidence above Liberty's foot. It might be Evelyn or Evonney or something of that nature. The photo shows the best view you're going to get, as it isn't much more obvious in person. I owned it for 15 yrs. and didn't notice, nor did anyone who saw it in person.

Crazy4Coins

so....altered surfaces is still somewhat correct, right

oh....and I see, you tried to hide it under a glare off of the slab too. Sort of like those nice little scratches on a slab right over top of a hit...


Thanks for a fun post

BigMoose

Holed and plugged next to E of ONE DOL.