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Test Your Skills Can You Tell An Original Coin From Cleaned?

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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CaptainFwiffo to your friends list
It looks like a PCGS holder doesn't do "details" grades so it would just come back as "genuine" if they slabbed it at all. But I think this one is original.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
I wouldn't hazard a guess without an image of the reverse as a comparative.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list
The back Test-Your-Skills-Can-You-Tell-An-Original-Coin-From-Cleaned?
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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list
The pictures looks a little grainy, but I will guess is original.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oih82w8 to your friends list
TheNickelGuy got the "s" part right!
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 Posted 11/15/2011  12:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list
You guys are good! coin wasn't cleaned
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 Posted 11/15/2011  1:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list
OK!
I will take another guess of the grade to be EF-40.
The obverse isn't as strong as the reverse, I would grade it as VF-35.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  1:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list

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OK!
I will take another guess of the grade to be EF-40.
The obverse isn't as strong as the reverse, I would grade it as VF-35.

right again! nice!
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 Posted 11/15/2011  2:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
I would have guessed original as well. That has the crusty look that you want to see on a coin. If it didn't have any dirt, with that wear, and retoned, then it would have been obviously cleaned. Sometimes coins can have a crusty look due to the way they retone. One way to tell is by tilting the coin in the light and seeing the hairlines.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  2:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list

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I would have guessed original as well. That has the crusty look that you want to see on a coin. If it didn't have any dirt, with that wear, and retoned, then it would have been obviously cleaned. Sometimes coins can have a crusty look due to the way they retone. One way to tell is by tilting the coin in the light and seeing the hairlines.
its funny that you mention hair lines because yesterday I posted a picture of a 1926s dime I bought and it was cleaned but I wanted to see if members here could tell the difference
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 Posted 11/15/2011  2:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list
Caferacer,

You paid a good price for the 26 S, as I have posted from your other forum that I would buy cleaned coins so long the price is right. In time you will upgrade it and used it to offset the cost when you sell it.
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 Posted 11/15/2011  2:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list

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Caferacer,

You paid a good price for the 26 S, as I have posted from your other forum that I would buy cleaned coins so long the price is right. In time you will upgrade it and used it to offset the cost when you sell it.
Your so smart! I made another bad descion...but all I can say is live and learn, now if it happens again ill no what to do! thanks for your info
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 Posted 11/15/2011  7:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list
I thought it was a trick question, like you were upset with the graders verdict. I figured it was sent back "cleaned" but didn't look like it at all. I did get the date mint and grade right though. This is a good game and educational!
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 Posted 11/16/2011  01:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caferacer311 to your friends list

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I thought it was a trick question, like you were upset with the graders verdict. I figured it was sent back "cleaned" but didn't look like it at all. I did get the date mint and grade right though. This is a good game and educational!
Thanks! ill do it again sometime! practice makes perfect hahaha
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 Posted 11/17/2011  09:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add f16 to your friends list
the first is original, and the second is original
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