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It is a genuine fantasy. No coin produced in the 1800s ever looked like that. (View Post)

Simplest answer: cleaning can't be undone, ever. Cleaning makes irreversible changes to the metal surface. A cleaned coin today will still be a cleaned coin 100 years from now. When you clean a … (View Post)

Weight isn't always diagnostic for missing clad layers, depending on where in the process the clad layer started being missing. In this case, though, the coin looks like a legit error and I bet … (View Post)

Thin / tapered planchet. Check the weight; I bet it's low. (View Post)

Good. You're exactly on target. The Red designation is usually (always?) worth more than another coin with the same numeric grade. That means that you need to start with the numeric grade, and w… (View Post)