Grade the raw $5 gold

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Weiss
Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Picked her up yesterday as bullion.
Lots of luster, a lil' dirty. Would you agree AU55, maybe 58? Higher or lower?

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  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU details, cleaned.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • bolivarshagnasty
    bolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: 291fifth

    AU details, cleaned.






    DITTO

  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU52, not cleaned.

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  • Boosibri
    Boosibri Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would agree with the above

    Latin American Collection

  • CommemKing
    CommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU50
  • ms70
    ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    40
  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: ms70
    40


    LOL. I hope that's a net grade. On a bad day. Up hill in the snow image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • golden
    golden Posts: 10,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: 291fifth
    AU details, cleaned.


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  • jmski52
    jmski52 Posts: 24,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If it were a Large Cent, it would be referred to as "harshly cleaned".
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    I knew it would happen.
  • DennisH
    DennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU55
    When in doubt, don't.
  • GoldCoin98
    GoldCoin98 Posts: 403 ✭✭
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    Au cleaned


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  • mannie gray
    mannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am seeing a lot of hairlines that would indicate a cleaning.

    Hard to determine without examining the coin if it would grade or not.

    Technical grade would be AU 50/53.
  • TopographicOceans
    TopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
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    I'm going to give you a Au53 straight grade

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    You heard me.

  • mirabela
    mirabela Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ditto the straight 53. Those hairlines really are consistent with actual pocket wear.
    mirabela
  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: mirabela

    Ditto the straight 53. Those hairlines really are consistent with actual pocket wear.




    Agree. Folks are way too quick to say, "cleaned" about coins.



    If it were a Large Cent, it would be referred to as "harshly cleaned".



    And if it were a pepperoni pizza, it would be referred to as "delicious"



    but it's not either one of those things, is it? image



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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would give it 53-55 and definitely not cleaned. Hairlines do not always come from cleaning.

    Too easy to 'hip shoot' a verdict. Cheers, RickO
  • grip
    grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: mirabela
    Ditto the straight 53. Those hairlines really are consistent with actual pocket wear.



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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Originally posted by: Baley
    Originally posted by: mirabela
    Ditto the straight 53. Those hairlines really are consistent with actual pocket wear.


    Agree. Folks are way too quick to say, "cleaned" about coins.

    If it were a Large Cent, it would be referred to as "harshly cleaned".

    And if it were a pepperoni pizza, it would be referred to as "delicious"

    but it's not either one of those things, is it? image



    Funny!
    I would say cleaned too. Maybe it is just the photo lighting, but it looks a little too shiny for a circulated coin.
    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU-50 sharpness, cleaned. All of the little hairlines plus the bright surfaces have drawn me to that conclusion.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • dogwood
    dogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭
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    Coin to coin contact, especially with gold, creates hairlines. If the girl was in a free space for awhile they could add up.
    Hard to tell from the photos if the lines are proper random but I'd feel good about that one.
    AU 53.
    Basic $5 & $10 Libs are fun!
    We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
  • steveben
    steveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    you should submit this coin...it would be so interesting to see the result.



    i think the light could be affecting people's opinions.



    when i saw the obverse, i thought, cleaned. but, when i saw the reverse i thought, that coin *may* grade 55 cause those hairlines could be just circulation wear being exaggerated by the photos. this is why you can't grade from photos.
  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    58 and dirty (not cleaned).

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dunno 'bout any cleaning but iooks like acceptable Ch AU to me?



    I get an AU53-55-ish vibe.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • joebb21
    joebb21 Posts: 4,811 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    AU50.

    may the fonz be with you...always...
  • Tibor
    Tibor Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The obv. looks to be 40-45 but wiped with a cloth, the high points are too bright.

    The rev. looks to be 50-55 but without the cloth impairment.

    True View pics might clear this up.
  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I suppose it goes to show how polarizing coins can be. We've got somewhere between 40 and 58, somewhere between original and cleaned. image
    I'd be good with 55 wiped. The cartwheel and frost is original and there is plenty of it. But there are a few hairlines.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame

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