Why do you think this coin ended up in a PCGS

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• Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 10:59PM

  It appears to me to have been cleaned at one time, and I think I see evidence of the hair having been tooled, perhaps the eagle as well?

  There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
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• jmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭

  October 6, 2008 11:04PM

  Looks pretty good to me. Some of the details may look a little deep. Maybe it was tooled?

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• duck620 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 11:37PM

  Only because of the age of the coin.it's american history.

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• seanq Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 11:37PM

  I agree with the previous post about tooling, to me it looks like the hair due left of the eye was tooled, and possibly also at the bottom next to the bust. The eagle's head also looks strange to me, but that may just be my unfamiliarity with the design.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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• Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 11:37PM

  My first wag would be the damage @ the field & back of head and on face.

  Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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• ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 11:44PM

  I would also say tooling. The damage and the old cleaning are not nearly enough to stop a 179x-dated coin from slabbing; these get a lot of leeway for problems like those.

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• STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  October 6, 2008 11:46PM

  I think it ended up in a PCGS "Genuine" slab because PCGS thought it was genuine, and the submitter thought it was a problem coin!!!
  
  Any more brain busters there Steve

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• lcoopie Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 6, 2008 11:48PM

  perhaps Genuine would look better than
  
  the full description that ANACS or NCS would give

  LCoopie = Les

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