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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm sure a properly-motivated Congressman could legislate rights for coins, giving them legal standing to sue people who abuse them. Clearly this coin's legal rights have been violated.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I don't mind a nice blast white dipped coin with cartwheel luster but this thing looks like it was taped to a truck tire and driven around the block a couple times... :)
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New Member
United States
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who cares! let them. if you think about it, it just makes your collection of non cleaned coins more valuable(fewer of them out there),sure it is not cool but better than jewelers who buy low grade coins at melt value, to melt and use the silver for jewelry which is illegal ,but done.
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12/23/2010 8:03 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
958 Posts |
Someone could electro plate that morgan hopefully fill in the scratches , Put it in a plant pot with soil and fertilizer mixed in water it every few days and in a few months and reage it, get it a nice dark brown black color , heat it mildy in the oven get a lil tone to it
being so dark the surface would not reflect the scratches and it might just look pitted from being buried a aftifical 100 years
I bet it would look like a coin found with a metal detector
I think it would atleast be better then a cleaned morgan , it might grade as XF being it will never grade as a UNC or MS agian
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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
I can understand if they didn't know any better being a non-collector, but an experienced collector is reminded all of the time not to clean their coins. And if you have the uncontrollable urge to dip and polish, use common coins from your change!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4989 Posts |
Seller wants $11,425 for it "just the slightest touch of cleaning"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1150 Posts |
Some just don't know, and some just don't care. I was in the coin shop yesterday when this guy came in asking the dealer for 'something to clean my coins with.' Even though the dealer politely told the man he shouldn't clean his coins he wasn't detered. He said he would go somewhere else to get something to dip them in. It's probably the guy selling that Morgan!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
838 Posts |
Will it grow more of the same date if it's planted in soil and watered? Or will it just yield Pres dollars?  |
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Valued Member
United States
255 Posts |
That is a terrible sight to behold :(
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Who cleans a BU 89-CC Morgan? :(
They weren't very gentle with the old gal either. It is frustrating  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Would any body hazard a guess as to what the market value is now is, with the problems it has?
That would be a lesson to those novices who wish to clean coins. We were all newbies once.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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if you think about it, it just makes your collection of non cleaned coins more valuable(fewer of them out there) Of course if you don't have that coin yet it also makes it more expensive and that much less likely that you will ever be able to own one. Quote:
Who cleans a BU 89-CC Morgan? :( Someone who doesn't know what they have. "Grandma left me this old silver dollar and I decided to sell it. It was awful dark so I shine it up for you." I see variations of that all the time Quote:
Would any body hazard a guess as to what the market value is now is, with the problems it has? Well assuming it was MS to begin with, it might be worth F-12 money now. Maybe VG. I don't think I would go lower than that. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I have a question... I don't want to be the laughing stock, but for those of us that may not know, what are the tell tell signs that this was cleaned, aside from the owner mentioning it in the auction? Is it the scrape under the PL or the scrape over the bridge of her nose? Is is it more? I just want to know what makes this obvious.
Thanks
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New Member
United States
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:O thats terrible! a few days ago, my mom took me to the coin shop and I bought a reeaally nice toned merc. My mom saw it and said it was disgusting! the next day I come home and see her hunched over the sink with a bottle of kaboom and a wire brush. she hands me my dime and sais " I cleaned it up for you!" with a triumphat look on her face D: oh I love my mom.
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