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Is it me, or is this a BEAUTIFUL DBH???
dizzyfoxx
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dizzyfoxx
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-Paul
<< <i>Need to see in hand. Looks at least dipped and retoned.
-Paul >>
I agree. It's a shame too!
<< <i>Need to see in hand. Looks at least dipped and retoned.
-Paul >>
My thoughts as well.
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dipped, stripped and it has possibly been cleaned. the kind of crap you typically see these days in slabs.
Looks like a fine grit Brillo pad was the source of shine!!!
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<< <i>Is it me, or is this a BEAUTIFUL DBH??? >>
If we're lookin' at the same photos I'd say this time it's you.
Yep, it has had a little work in the past but I still like it.
Mike
Dizzyfox, listen -- A 200 year old coin does not have the eye appeal of a Washington Quarter unless it has been played with. The numerous fine lines on my image strongly suggest cleaning to me. And that rim toning is what the coin doctors have been putting on Unc. Capped Bust Halves -- many of them in first world slabs -- for the last three or four years. I guess they think they can do the same with Draped Bust Halves, get them slabbed, and mark them up accordingly.
Imo, yet another numismatic abortion. The only reason I'd want that half is to show what can be done to ruin a two hundred year old coin. I find this nauseating. Where's a barf bag when I need it.
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Is it me, or is this a BEAUTIFUL DBH???
To me, ALL Draped Bust Halves are beautiful, regardless of technical grade or problems. The embedded history and the nostalgia of the design does it for me. However, there are many others in the series with a better "look."
Shame on CAC for giving their sticker to that coin, and shame on PCGS for slabbing it in the first place.
I will second this opinion.
I just read the description:
In fact, if it weren’t for the signs of wear on the high points and the scattered hairlines, this piece would equal some MS-63 and even some MS-64 examples in terms of eye appeal.
Translation: "In fact, if this coin had not been circulated and then cleaned, it would be Uncirculated." Or, more charitably, "this coin was once Uncirculated."
On the other hand, it's not in my hand.
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