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I have two IHCs I got in a lot that are regular looking on the reverse but shiny and red on the obverse. What is the deal? Polished on one side? Sitting in the sun? You can really see the shininess in the scan.   |
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You can really see the shininess in the scan. Absolutely. For those unaware, scanners return luster as dark areas - everything you see darker on the obverse is shiny. I'm not quite sure what to think of it yet. |
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Not sure in this case, but usually it is polished on one side. For whatever reason, I've seen that plenty of times. I wonder why people clean one side of a coin; do they realize it's a bad idea halfway through and then stop?
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It could be caused by other reasons too. That is why cleaned detection can be difficult. Sitting out in the sun or carrying a coin in your pocket can make a coin looked cleaned. I am thinking it looks like it could be a storage issue.
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Pillar of the Community
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Dave, thanks for the scanner tip. Never knew that!
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I've seen this happen to coins in the past. IMHO, I always assumed they were once cleaned at a point in time, and air/recirculating/mixed with other coins slowly recolored them back to normal, but still would show traces of being cleaned. I do believe at one point in time or another this coin was completely polished.
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This coin was probably in a Blue Whitman book whereas only one side of the coin is shown. While it was in the book, someone cleaned it to "enhance" it. Someone simply didn't pop the coin out to clean the other side because once in the folder, no one sees the reverse side.
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Dave, thanks for the scanner tip. Never knew that!
I've cherrypicked a few good ones with that knowledge.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah, I remember a few months back a guy on this site bought two unc IHCs for a song, that looked like dogs because they were scanned. Note to sellers: Don't scan new IHCs  |
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Scanners also tend to return pink signatures.
I can't definitively say what's going on with your coin via these scans.
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...new IHCs... I'm pretty sure IHC's have been "new" for over a century   |
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I love people that use scanners for ebay pics ! Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Not sure in this case, but usually it is polished on one side. For whatever reason, I've seen that plenty of times. I wonder why people clean one side of a coin; do they realize it's a bad idea halfway through and then stop? Probably because only the front is showing in an album and the owner wants it to look "nice." |
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It really depends on the coin on whether to use a scanner. Sometimes a scanner can be better than a photo. I have seen many bad pics using a camera. A high resolution scan can show all kinds of details a regular scan can't. Actually this scan of this coin looks just like it does when you hold it against the light. lighting can actually mask things. Luster is hard to see using a scanner but details are easy to see. I have a good HP scanner that is good for scanning all sorts of coins.
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04/14/2015 3:52 pm
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Posted 04/13/2015 11:05 pm
