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Is This Whizzed Or Just Wiped?

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 Posted 10/10/2011  10:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list
A classic example of why rule #1 is don't clean coins.
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 Posted 10/10/2011  10:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Sort of looks like whoever did that used some sort of pummace material. Wire brushed might have only gone one way but those lines are all over the place. What a mistake that cleaning attempt was.
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 Posted 10/10/2011  3:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lukkyseven to your friends list

Quote:
A classic example of why rule #1 is don't clean coins.


What?!?! I shouldn't jump all over this baby?
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 Posted 10/10/2011  3:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add VisigothKing to your friends list
All I have for this is
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 Posted 10/10/2011  4:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dave700x to your friends list
Can't tell if it was 120 or 150 grit
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 Posted 10/10/2011  5:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add merclover to your friends list
It's funny... I read all the comments above mine here before I actually looked at the pic of the coin... from the harsh comments, I expected not to be able to even make out what type of coin it was, lol. Yeah, it has scratches, but it's not disfigured or anything.

To me it looks as if they cleaned it with steel wool, like maybe a SOS cleaning pad.

The seller should have pointed out the fact that the coin was cleaned. Probably a classic case of a non-collector thinking they were improving the coin by making it shine again. What a shame.
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 Posted 10/10/2011  5:42 pm  Show Profile   Check vermontensium's eBay Listings Check vermontensium's eCrater Listings Bookmark this reply Add vermontensium to your friends list
Melt...that's it.
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 Posted 10/10/2011  6:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Namachieli to your friends list
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 Posted 10/13/2011  07:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lukkyseven to your friends list
If it was discounted I'd buy it and try to let it tone in my pocket for a few years!
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 Posted 10/13/2011  9:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Piffin to your friends list
"Yeah, it has scratches, but it's not disfigured or anything."

LOL, the scratches ARE disfiguring it!
I agree a hand job with steel wool is what this looks like to me
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 Posted 10/22/2011  09:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jaycutler to your friends list
All I can say is SAD!
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 Posted 10/22/2011  8:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add upstate to your friends list
Looks like a 1928-S also.
Someone tried to scrub it off but I see it.
Junk.
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 Posted 10/22/2011  9:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Moe145 to your friends list
OUCH! It looks like a good strike too. Terrible shame.
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 Posted 10/22/2011  10:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Amadauss to your friends list
I was at a coin show a few weeks ago and saw a table with a number of dollars looking just like this one. The guy told me his brother had cleaned them and those marks look exactly the same. Said he used a Q tip and Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish you can buy at an auto parts store, rubbed them to try to make them shine and then used a towel to scrub them clean. He was selling them as is for the silver.

What's more troubling is the seller on ebay has a 100 percent rating and looks like a lot of sales. Why put this up without stating the issue of cleaning happening?
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 Posted 10/23/2011  05:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add upstate to your friends list
Is this an "s"

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