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New Member
United States
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I recently bought a nice Au 1865 ihp off ebay and I sent it to Anacs and it came back Au50 details re-engraved obverse. Prior to sending this coin I didn't notice anything weird about it. After getting it back I did the diamonds look thinner trim. Has anyone else ever heard of this on a ihp? Also is blue ribbon coin preserver legal to sell? I have 8 bottles from the late 90s. |
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Valued Member
United States
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ive never heard of that? especially on a ihp, but then again I've only been in this hobby for 7 years, and I dont know if blue ribbon coin preserver is legal to sell, but if you can sell it id love to get my hands on it
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cant help w/IHC, but this is from Wizard's site. "Get your Blue Ribbon coin conditioner now, while you can! This top of the line coin conditioner is no longer in production, but our resident wizards used their magic powers to obtain some of the last few bottles made." 30. per 2 oz.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes, since the number of diamonds is (or at least used to be) one of the criteria for grading Indians it was not unknown for unscrupulous people to re-engrave the diamonds.
Edited by Conder101
01/21/2014 1:49 pm
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New Member
 United States
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The diamonds are the only place it appears to be re-engraved. Wow should I not buy off ebay? I don't want to get rid of my blue ribbon but if someone really needs one I'd let 1 go and yes I would be fair Lol. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I have never before heard of re-engraving. One more thing to watch fo. Thanks for sharing this.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 It's always helpful to have a picture to clue-in other collectors.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1080 Posts |
Yeah, I got a IHC from an online dealer that had a re-engraved ribbon. They took it back no prob. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes pics !
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I have never before heard of re-engraving. One more thing to watch fo. Thanks for sharing this. It is a far more commonly encountered problem with ancient coins, where the process is known as "tooling". A tooled coin is considered only slightly less deceptive than a counterfeit coin. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
United States
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Would someone school me on how to post photos here I'm old school and challenged in the skill.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take a good closeup of the coin. Use "Reply to Topic" and then click on "Free Image Optimizer". Upload your image there, then I usually use Crop Image to draw a box around just the coin, then Apply Changes. If the resulting size in KB (shown in green below the image) is a lot less than the 100KB maximum, I usually adjust "new size" and "image quality" to make the best of it. Then "download this image", which adds "_opt" to the filename, then use that image with the "upload image" option in the original "Reply to Topic".
The Reply to Topic also has a helpful "Uploading Images" link, and the image optimizer has basic instructions at the top. Make sure your picture has good focus or none of this helps. If your camera has high resolution but not very good "macro" images, I've found that a clear picture taken from a bit farther away still shows good detail after being resized and cropped in the optimizer.
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New Member
United States
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Thank you I will try it soon :)
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New Member
United States
27 Posts |
here is a picture of the re-engraved 1865 Indian cent I bought off e-bay and anacs brought yo light it is re-engraved. sorry this is the best picture I could do hope this is ok also its my first ever picture on any forum.its with a cell phone.  |
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New Member
United States
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lol I meant anacs brought this to light :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good picture for a first time! Let's see another showing the full obverse. I'd never heard of re-engraving the ribbon. If the coin is already AU, what value does this deception add? Also seems pretty hard to detect...
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Posted 01/21/2014 11:41 am
