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Valued Member
United States
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The grade that it got really puzzled me. I was excepted something entirely different. Your thoughts and guesses? Still trying to grasp picture taking - sorry in advance. **Deleted back blurry pictures... added (hopefully better pictures)**  The mark above the 1835 isn't on the coin.  I didn't really know which ones were the best to keep... sorry for the overload on pictures. If someone knows the Cohen number/die state that would be cool too. :) Edited by homerecher
08/06/2012 11:38 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Can't tell much from your out of focus photos. The coin appears high grade but it also looks like it has been cleaned. If you can get some better photos I'm sure evryone here can get close on the grade.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
 United States
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Okay, changed the pictures... these ones are much better... please let me know if you guys need more/others
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36844 Posts |
Sorry, still out of focus and unable to see the details of the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3253 Posts |
If the picture quality leaves it in question whether this is lightly circulated, or uncirculated, there was a horde of uncirculated Half Cents of this date. Statistically, this one may be less likely to be EF than AU or MS. |
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United States
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I'm not quite sure how else to get clearer pictures. Sorry. I just have a standard point and shoot camera. As far as the grade - it came back cleaned.
Just wanted to know why? Where is there evidence that it has been cleaned in the past. What should I look for?
Thanks.
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Moderator
 United States
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Mid AU/cleaned. Lackluster, softer details and discoloration in the fields.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Much better photos. Some friction on the face and high points of the leaves. Looks AU-55 details as the color is off making it look cleaned.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is guess AU58 cleaned. A very nice Half Cent! |
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United States
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IMHO AU-58 cleaned, but a very nice coin to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with AU details possibly for cleaning or altered color.
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Valued Member
United States
54 Posts |
Yeah, it came back AU cleaned... but how can you tell... what am you looking at when you see a 'cleaned' copper? It looks RB to me (in hand at least - the pictures came up Brown).
@vermontensium: when you say the fields are you speaking of those black blotchy marks?
Would it make any sense to send this coin into Coin Conservation? Or pop it out and try to take off the cleaning. I heard putting it in dirt for a while can do that.
I do thanks for all the replies :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If your lighting is correct, it is too...hard to describe the color other than " light". Here is my 1835 Half Cent (not the best images) that came back from ANACS, EF40, and it's a chocolate brown.   Edited by oih82w8
08/07/2012 1:24 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I kinda can tell. Your's is fully brown, while mine has some spots. I guess that's where the cleaning came from.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Beautiful coin! Cleaned or not. I also have a hard time telling cleaned coins for myself.. Often I just take people's word for it. The comparison here helped a lot.. I can see the difference. Thanks for the learning experience!
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