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Need Opinion on This 1853 Dime
Shane6596
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To me this looks like it was cleaned at some point then it retoned. Or was it fully toned and someone polished some areas?
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I think you are in the right area. I would go with dipping. More heavily toned and dipped out and re-toned or I lean a little toward partially dipped out (and then maybe a little re-toned). Guesstimate.
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AU details, cleaned and retoned.
AU-53 on the fringes of market acceptability, IMO. Is that rim damage on the reverse at 1 o'clock?
Dipped, retoned naturally after the fact with the surfaces etched from the acid. AU sharpness with respect to grade. NGC might grade it. There is a better chance that PCGS will not.
Originality is critical on quality pieces, this one was ruined a long time ago, you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Looks like an old dip and then time in an envelope.... Looks to be AU if the rim damage doesn't give it details .... Cheers, RickO
It looks like a coin that was buried, dug up and chemically cleaned. It also has rim damage. It does not belong in a straight graded holder.
Thanks for feedback. Im gonna pass on it.
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Appears to be a cleaned AU.
To me it looks like the coin was dug up (appears to have a fair amount of porosity), cleaned, put in an album, and retoned. I don't think it would straight grade.