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I bought a partially filled Whitman album of large cents a while ago, and I think this is one of the best of them. My guess is EF 40 or 45. I'm concerned about the color, though - the others are all dark brown as you would expect, but this one is gold to reddish copper, almost like someone painted it. Is it possible that this is the coin's natural color, or did someone alter the surface?   Edited by RubyOpal
02/19/2018 1:22 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AU details (cleaned, some ED).
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 United States
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AU details (cleaned, some ED). What makes you say it's been cleaned? I thought all the little nicks and dings were from circulation. I don't see the groups of parallel fine lines that I do on other cleaned coins. Not sure I see evidence of ED, either - do you mean the darker spots? Edited by RubyOpal
02/19/2018 1:32 pm
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United States
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AU details, Cleaned, Environmental Damage
The telltale sign of cleaned copper is the strange coloration - most evident at 9 o'clock on the obverse.
The environmental damage is the small black spots present on the coin.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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EF, details, cleaned.
The coin has been dipped. Two indicators. First are the little black spots. Those developed with some of the dip solution was not properly washed off the coin.
The second indicator is the difference of color around the devices or elements that become "brighter" as you move toward the open fields. That two tone copper color will NEVER disappear once a coin is dipped. Even if you use a darkener, it won't be the right color.
Cleaning includes both mechanical cleaning - using something to rub against the coin, usually by hand, and chemical cleaning, which is what a dip is.
So a dip won't show the parallel lines you are referring to.
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au53. surfaces questionable
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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The coin has been dipped. Does "dipped" mean cleaned in acetone? Or did somebody use jewelry cleaner on this coin? Or salt and vinegar? Edited by RubyOpal
02/19/2018 3:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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"Dipped" refers to a cleaner of some kind (Not acetone).
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Pillar of the Community
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Jewelry or coin cleaner. Not acetone.
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EF, details, cleaned. Agreed. |
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