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I recently purchased an 1885-S Liberty $5 gold coin that had been graded MS-66 by ANGS. Another Numie and I examined the coin upon receipt. It obviously had been "whizzed" and when it was spun the word "LIBERTY" had almost been obliterated. The best way to tell an improperly cleaned, spun,

or whizzed GOLD specimen is to weigh the coin. If the weight has been reduced by .001 gram or more, well.....that gold went somewhere and it wasn't lost by rubbing against someone's pocket while in circulation. PCGS, NGC, or even NNC would have returned the coin as non-gradable. People say "buy the coin, not the grader"......sorry guys, it doesn't work that way these days!

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