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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I found a good deal on a '31-S today, a nice cleaned XF coin. However, I checked it later, and it had some very small hairlines. I think it might have been whizzed. Is this a big deal? Can it be retoned? It's just for my circulated set, anyway.
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 United States
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IMHO ... a damaged coin will always be damaged. A cleaned, whizzed 1931-S will take a long time to re-tone ... and even them will be a damaged coin.
Each of us needs to make our own choices about what to collect ... if you are satisfied then that is all that matters.
David
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I took it out of the 2x2. Apparently, the scratches were only on the plastic! It's cleaned, but not badly. I really did get a good deal.  Edited by CPC24
08/11/2012 10:55 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you want it to tone down a bit, place on a kitchen window ledge for a while. On the inside, not outside.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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If you want it to tone down a bit, place on a kitchen window ledge for a while. On the inside, not outside good advice, if you put it on the outside some bugger will pinch it  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Once cleaned, always cleaned, you cannot "unclean" a coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well you can carry it around and wear the cleaned surface off if it does bother you. Id suspect most of the older coins out there have had something done to them at one point or another that would be classified as cleaning
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Forgive me for asking but what is "Whizzed" Buffed? Tooled? Dremel application of some kind?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Forgive me for asking but what is "Whizzed" Buffed? Tooled? Dremel application of some kind? All forms of cleaning, except for tooling, which refers to giving it an appearance that it doesn't have, like FB on a Mercury dime. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeah whizzed is using a high speed wheel to "clean" the surface of a coin with a soft material.
Results vary.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Forgive me for asking but what is "Whizzed" Whizzing involved using a wad of glasswool on the end of a drill (a Dremel works too) and buffing the surfaces to remove a layer of metal. To the untrained eye, it can make the coin look MS. However, it will remove all traces of cartwheel luster and leave behind hairlines.....obvious signs to an experienced eye. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Posted 08/11/2012 10:14 pm
