Does This Look Cleaned?

Hard to tell from that image, but it does appear cleaned and starting to re-tone.

The lighting looks most unnatural to me... Beautiful coin though.

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Originally posted by biokemist6

If the lighting is correct, I would say it had an old dip and is retoning. At least it isn't a garish orange-red like some over-dipped large cents

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I have one of those.

It was an experiment just to see how well copper and Jeweluster got along. Not well, as it turned out:





Mind you, the coin was absolutely useless before the dip. The scan grossly underestimates the degree of pitting; there are areas where layers of copper have been eaten away. This was a definite bodybag, beyond hope. It was entirely black, the same color as the areas which still show black.

Frankly, I was amazed that so much detail was left under all the stuff. I couldn't see it before the dip.

Next I'm going to acquire some Deller's and see what that'll do.