| Author |
 Replies: 19 / Views: 2,475 |
Page 2 of 2
|
|
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1203 Posts |
Cleaned or not cleaned! The real deciding factor as far as I'm concerned is it's actual appearance when 'in hand'. What does it actually look like when you are holding it. How does it look along side of the rest of your coins in a set etc. That would be the real deciding factor as to what to pay for the piece.  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
Personally, I don't really care if a coin is cleaned or not. Value wise, it's always better to get something uncleaned, but if I see a cleaned coin that is bright and white, and it looks MS, then I don't mind it. I used to think that it was bad, but after seeing how many nice cleaned coins that are out there, I have changed my mind.
|
|
Valued Member
 United States
487 Posts |
Just an update the coin went for $1080 and I am not the new owner.  |
|
Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
quote:
Just an update the coin went for $1080 and I am not the new owner.
$1080?That was a monumental sucker play. |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
"Cleaned" is also a very inclusive word and the difference between cleaning agents/methods can be astronomical. Given two identical coins, one cleaned by soaking in Acetone and one cleaned by scrubbing with a toothbrush dipped in Ajax; obviously the values would differ.
I agree with OldDan, it depends....
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
Hi scmoore61,
Please post a link to the completed auction when you have time, I would like to see it.
|
|
Forum Mom
United States
5877 Posts |
|
|
New Member
United States
8 Posts |
This should teach people to never ever clean coins...haha
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
882 Posts |
I wouldn't mind being the owner of that coin, cleaned or not. Looks nice to me...
|
|
Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
Yep that was the coin. Was $1008 instead of 1080.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Now here is something interesting on cleaning coins. Go to
www.pennycollector.com and then click on cleaning coins. Very interesting.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
 horror of horrors, just_carl. That advice is so, so bad, I thought it must be in jest. A checklist of sure ways to destroy your coins. |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
Ok, it seems the whole idea at that page is to describe techniques to make your pennies shiny before you smash them into elongated cents. Kinda of like preparing the planchet before striking.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
751 Posts |
Yes, t360, Carl's link is not about coin cleaning so much as it's about copper slug cleaning.
|
|
Valued Member
United States
390 Posts |
That may be the case, but for those new to collecting and not aware of the damage cleaning can do, he should have but a disclaimer with that link. If someone goes to that site and then does something from that site (and doesn't read anything else, etc.) then that could be disastrous for their collection, both now and in the future.
|
|
Page 2 of 2
|
Replies: 19 / Views: 2,475 |
Page 2 of 2
|
First Page
Posted 05/30/2007 03:00 am
