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United States
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Key date, so it gets a pass.
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Just overly worn, I wouldn't say cleaned as much as just rubbed to within an inch of it's life. Looks okay to me, probably got the color from spending a few years in an album.
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 with westcoin, has said it well. |
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Looks like an honest well circulated coin to me. I am pretty sure that if there was evidence of this being "Cleaned" NGC would have picked it up regardless of it being a Key date  |
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United States
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I Agree , I don't see any problems with this coin. Not even a cleaning.  |
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Quote:
I am pretty sure that if there was evidence of this being "Cleaned" NGC would have picked it up regardless of it being a Key date With high value key date coins, PCGS and NGC tend to be a little more liberal on grading than they would otherwise, especially popular coins like the '09 S-VDB, 1877 IHC, 1885/1886 Liberty nickels, 1916/1921 Walkers, 1916/1921 SLQ, etc, etc. I do not know the reasoning behind this, but key date coins are less likely to be body-bagged than common dates in the same series. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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On a 1916-D Merc it would have to be scrubbed with steel wool to be called cleaned. A TPG might knock the grade down a touch if the cleaning was harsh but not abrasive. This example looks like little more than an old soap and water cleaning that many coins over 80 years old have received. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks find to me. Black "circulation cameo" is built up in protected places where wear cant get to it, and it looks unbroken telling me that no cleaning has been done to this coin.
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I agree it looks relatively problem free I don't detect any real cleaning.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Most likely cleaned long ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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problem free
water and rag wash
happy 100th birthday to that little darling
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Looks very typical of well-worn Mercs to me.
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Hmm. Strange, I figured it was cleaned. Looks cleaned from the obverse.
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I would say definitely cleaned.
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