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CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,345 ✭✭✭✭✭
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What do you all think?

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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU55.
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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Solid Au-55 and if the luster is as nice as it appears to be, then I even think Au-58?
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    charleycharley Posts: 2,071
    50-cleaned.
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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I would agree with charley......
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,345 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On this series what are the cleaning signs to look for, other than the obvious hairlines and such. Each series seems to have its own little "tells".
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    charleycharley Posts: 2,071
    Date, (definitely looks rubbed,not to mention wear,star outline, shield lines, with a shadowing appearance; if had the coin in hand, I would say it is finally starting to turn from cleaning.
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    BikingnutBikingnut Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have no idea what that would grade, but it looks like a nice problem free nickel. It would fit nicely into my type set.
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    LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Yep, it's definatly a nickel.

    I must be off a bit, I graded it XF45. ...not my area of specialty.

    David
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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Telltale signs of cleaning:

    1) Look for lots of small scratches / hairlines in the fields of the coin
    2) Often, the coin is a slider which has been stripped of its luster. An AU coin should have some cartwheel luster, but a cleaned coin looks dead. That being said, nice cartwheel luster on most Shield Nickels is scarce, though there are enough 1882 and 1883s that have it.
    3) Often, the color is a bit off, especially with copper.
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    Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279
    date looks funky
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    keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    XF40-45.

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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesnt looked cleaned IMO, and if so its verylight, and wont keep it from holdering.

    This coin will grade better than Xf folks, Is AU all the way?

    jim
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,864 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>date looks funky >>



    The date looks funky on a lot of 1883 shield nickels. There are at least 3 overdate varieties and a double date.

    If the coin is not cleaned bright, I still think that it would easly sell for EF-AU money or maybe AU money. There is a lot of overgrading going on when it comes to circulated 19th coins. This piece looks better than most.
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