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Too bad it's been polished to death
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and a slight MAD
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Did the cleaning devalue it if the gouge was already there? Maybe they figured it would do better if it was shiny.

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This guy is one of the many sellers I've excluded from my ebay searches. He must spend a fortune on buffing wheels...
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Sorry, but no thanks... This poor Merc has seen some bad times...
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I would give him 20 bucks max. That thing is wrecked.
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I skip all of his offerings as it appears most of his silver coins have been cleaned and/or polished.
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Most of the value has been polished away.
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Mercury (Liberty?) has an earring!
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I'm going to avoid this guy too. The nose gave it away for me, last I checked, she never had a curved nose. It looks like someone took a baseball bat and hit her nostrils so her nose would curve up.
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Polished and the counting wheel damage kills that poor baby
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In case anyone is curious, the scratch at the center was caused by an old-school dime bank. Dime banks were popular in the first half of the 20th century. It is essentially a metal tube with a removable cap on one end and a coin slot on the opposite end. A screw is located at the top next to the slot where dimes are added. Tighten down the screw and the bottom cap pops off to dispense dimes and of course, tightening the screw also makes a nice circular gouge on the top coin.
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Got polish?
Holy cow... too bad that key date has seen some much, much better days..
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the scratch at the center was caused by an old-school dime bank.
Yeah...back in the day when a dime could place a call on a payphone.
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