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vaq45vaq45 Posts: 212
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This is on e-bay for close to $200-I inquired about the silver splotches and they said that it was on the coin and graded that way-i thought it might be a camera flash reflection--would you call this a "69" grade ???and how can NGC grade this so high?

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    turned color in the holder?

    Maybe it's been near a lot of chemicals.
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    adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    I would assume something is wrong here and avoid this product altogether. No, I don't see how NGC would grade a splotched coin...if there is a problem, they have NCS to turn to.

    Fake slab?

    Cracked slab with coin replaced and resealed?

    Violating the 'buy the coin and not the slab' rule?


    [edit] Maybe it was around LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of horrible chemicals?!? Yikes! Vapors that can strip copper or plate metal? Hard to imagine. The gasses that can do this are available in the Bay Area...used for circuit manufacture...and these gasses tend to be highly poisonous and spontaneously combustive.


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    vaq45vaq45 Posts: 212
    Looks to me like it was Gouged down to the zinc and then graded??---never seen such a thing
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would assume something is wrong here and avoid this product altogether. No, I don't see how NGC would grade a splotched coin...if there is a problem, they have NCS to turn to. Fake slab? Cracked slab with coin replaced and resealed? Violating the 'buy the coin and not the slab' rule? [edit] Maybe it was around LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of horrible chemicals?!? Yikes! Vapors that can strip copper or plate metal? Hard to imagine. The gasses that can do this are available in the Bay Area...used for circuit manufacture...and these gasses tend to be highly poisonous and spontaneously combustive. >>



    I doubt it's fake. Any scammer would find a better coin to put in their fake. --Jerry
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    DustyCoinboxDustyCoinbox Posts: 206
    Maybe some sort of reflection in the photo?
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    vaq45vaq45 Posts: 212
    I asked the seller about reflection and he said "no" that is how it was graded--strange !!!
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    BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
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    Hmmmm? Interesting post. I have several Lincoln's that exhibit similar
    silver splotches. Both Obv and Rev, too. All PCGS. All high grades.
    Frankly, I do not recall them having any silver spots when I purchased/
    certified them. It was only after I happened to look thru several blue
    boxes of both proof and MS cents, that I noticed the anomaly.
    I would be interested to hear from anyone who can explain the
    strange toning!
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    adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    It just occurred to me how this could happen.

    Putty.
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    fcfc Posts: 12,804 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It just occurred to me how this could happen.

    Putty. >>



    i never heard of putty being used on copper.... but i am open
    to learning if that is the case.

    i just think there is another poster who has seen this anomoly
    and obviously they did not putty their own coins... and they
    were already slabbed.
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Maybe the NGC grader was just blurry eyed from seeing too many coins that day?

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