1950 LWC Proof Or Heavily Polished?

That thing looks polished to the gills on the obverse to me. I can also see some on the reverse. I too have many cleaned and polished coins in my possession. I've spent many hours figuring out how and why. I've some that are chemically cleaned, polished, scrubbed, tumbled and washed/picked.

Just look at the year mint near the base of the stamping, it is consistently void of shine at about 1 mm from the numbers. Along with the center to rim lines indicating polishing. The high points on the cheek and other places like the nose tip shouldn't be shiny, so it's a polished penny to me.

That's my pennies worth.

I agree with both of you. The rims on this one don't show evidence of being polished or run over though. They're still full in my opinion.

Were the 1950 proofs struck with weak dies?

Heavily cleaned. I'd say through an abrasive method. VF details. The reverse is cleaned, but less abrasively so. Maybe XF details on the reverse.

Total: Cleaned, VF details.

Not a "keeper"

OK then, it has found a happy home:)

I've got one too, coins like this are too cheap to toss back, I don't want to sell them to someone who might try and deceive others by selling it, so I toss it in with other odds and ends from my pocket and coin show pickups/freebies (wooden nickles/elongateds/counterstamped, etc.

I thought all collectors kept a little box of odd coins and trinkets.