1914 Barber Quarter

I bet this is a great looking coin in hand.

I have a 1934 D Peace dollar with this same problem.
Looks great in hand, but the wipe lines show up on pictures..
Once you see the lines in pictures, it gets easier to see them
in hand ..

As others posted ...

Unfortunately that is what looks like happen to this coin.

I took the Barber quarter to my local coin dealer today and showed it to him. He confirmed everyone's opinions that the coin has been cleaned. He said that it looked to him as if someone had used baking soda on it. That was a new one for me.

He also told me that was unfortunate since it may have been a very nice slider/Uncirculated coin before being cleaned.

We ended up having an informative (for me) discussion on how people clean silver coins. He talked about using ammonia and whizzing silver coins to restore "luster". I'm glad we had the talk.

I have a LOT more to learn about detecting cleaned and altered coins, but am glad I asked CCF about this Barber and that I have learned enough to have been suspicious of this one.

It's going back in the mail tomorrow.