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Your thoughts on this "rainbow" toned Buffalo Nickel
mnmcoin
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Okay, its raw and toned. Bid is just around MS64 Greysheet. Is it real? Is it MS?
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I think the coin is pretty, but ???
Okay, its raw and toned. Bid is just around MS64 Greysheet. Is it real? Is it MS?
morris <><
I think the coin is pretty, but ???
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I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
Russ, NCNE
1- Gash in the Indian's head... drop the grade a few points
2- Not a super-strong strike, but it does look uncirculated
3- NO luster at all- likely cleaned
4- Toning does look legit
5- Coin looks corroded- possibly from a cleaning agent(?)
6- Look at his feedback
My reasoning on the cleaning... I got a coin somewhat like that (very cheap) at Baltimore... showed the guys at ANACS, and they immediately said it was cleaned...
I think calling this even MS64 is pushing it... if it weren't cleaned, maybe 63. If it were, net AU.
Jeremy
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I wouldn't count count on that coin being MS, either, as there appears to be some rub on the hip. Technicly(sic) MS69 my foot.
The sellers discription of this coin is laughable as well as the winning bid. I wouldn't pay $10 for it.
With all that said, I wouldn't bid on a coin like that without seeing it in hand first. My grading opinion could change drastically. If I were forced into bidding on this one, $75 would do it.
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Does that really happen "naturally" ?
Skipper
Dave
19-P's are relatively sharply struck (not like the D's that look worn right off the dies) and this coin has wear on the Buff's head, shoulder and tail - coin was probably cleaned at some time and possibly it's AT to hide the fact that as a cleaned AU coin the luster is now gone.(but it might have been cleaned and actually toned like that if it was in an album for 10 years, but I doubt it - too expensive for a dealer to buy an AU coin and put it away for 10 years). The real give away is the wear and the lack of luster - (but if in real time it's really got blasty luster beneath the "toning' then it could be a poorly struck UNC - but I doubt it, as if it was really lusterous, it would be graded already - its waiting for someone to buy it to be sent in and BB's (or at best graded AU).
BTW - Buffs are one of the hardest series to grade - Unc ones look AU & AU coins that are sharply stuck are often sold raw as Uncs - so this is not an unusual offering for a Buff. Also, its virtually impossible to grade coins based on scans - so this opinion is just an educated guess from the apparent wear on the coin - the ONLY way you can distinguish circulation wear and weakly struck Buffs is to see the coin "in the flesh" and examine it carefully with a good light & a 5-7x lens.
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the strike at the rims doesn't match the softness of the detail throughout the coin.
AU55 with natural tone.
al h.
<< <i>Coin is AU. Look at the hip bone on the reverse >>
Yup...you got it. It's also AT.
jom
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