What’s your opinion on this dime? Does it look cleaned? The inside of the obverse D makes me wonder. It appears to have some toning.

1735-Mo Spanish 8 Reale coin

Hey everyone! I’m posting a follow up with my 1861 IHC, and was looking gain some more insight to help me in the future with detecting these things. Everyone pointed out that the coin appeared to be cleaned, potentially an old cleaning, and I wanted to see if I could identify the tells.

Firstly, I noticed my original images seemed to have a lot of noise added when I uploaded them to Reddit. I’m going to upload new photos, and while the surface looks a bit nicer, I think there’s still evidence of cleaning. The red circles highlight some of what I learned as “halo effect” around the words, but I also circled in blue the other part of the legend. There doesn’t seem to be that same effect, what would cause this difference?

The other tell I read about was small parallel lines on the fields. It looks like that may be the case on the obverse to the left of the head, but on the reverse I’m not seeing any of those. Is/was it a thing to just wipe down the front of a coin? Or am I missing something there too?

Any other signs to look for that you may have noticed? Appreciate the help!

Curious what this might grade. Thanks all.

$900.00

I've been pocket carrying this coin for like 10 months now and made probably a million posts on it but I'm trying to get down to roughly a VG before I stop. And it's honestly looking close to a VG now I just want extra thoughts do you guys think this is down that low yet?

The eye is built one coin at a time.

Grading by eye is a skill, and like any skill, the way to get better is reps. If your eyes don’t see it yet, that’s fine. Nobody starts out seeing it.

Answer in the comments once the guesses are in.

What are you guys thinking for the grade of this coin? I’m new to numismatics but I did my best to cross reference images on the PCGS app, and read about what determines grade. Based on that, I’m thinking this coin can grade probably as high as AU 50. There’s a fair bit of wear on the feathers and the damaged denticle on the obverse is definitely a point of concern.

But the luster - especially in person, is pretty spectacular. I didn’t see much about toning having an effect but I personally love the localized toning around the year. Would love to hear your thoughts!

1843 - D (Dahlonega) $5 Gold. This is graded by PCGS, it is straight graded despite some fine old cleaning lines. What's your guess? Answer tomorrow!

1944 D Mercury Dime, is there enough in the middle for FB?

Noting the ring ding at 10 pm. I am mainly wondering if the ding would take it out of a straight grade.

Should I grade before I sell or sell as is?

Blue,purple,green colors

I’m stuck between two lower end grades (I won’t say yet as to not accidentally sway you one way or another) due to the obverse being in slightly better condition than the reverse. Thanks in advance!