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Rest in Peace
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This looks MUCH more suspicious in terms of being 'cleaned', I can see a lot of lines, looks like areas are too bright. This is cleaned, right? Image:  1894Obarber.jpg57.74 KB Anyway, would you take this at 25 bucks even with cleaning? |
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't think it has been cleaned. Since "it just doesn't look like it " doesn't really explain, let me try to explain whay I think. The amount of toning inside the delicate small spaces like inside the letters, the date,the mint mark, matches most of the toning around the perimeter part of the coin. a Cleaning would tend to leaves the more open perimeter space much lighter than these areas. The area behind the ear matches well with the general toning. Yes the areas in front of the face and over and below the "one dime" are lighter, but matches the higher points. For a coin in the lower grades, it will have scratches, but unless they go in the same direction ( circular, N/S, E/W)and/) or are "uniform" in brightness ( indicating the scratches were all made at the same time), which would indicate cleaning.
Really hard to tell cleaning, unless exceedingly harsh, from a photo, but to me it looks just normal wear.
Yes, if I had a collection of these, I would pay $25.
Jim,
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I do collect Dime and Barbers are ones I put back. and with an O Mint mark $25.00 about the going cost of a raw one in the condition shown.
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I completed my Barber dime set earlier this year. For $25 I'd take that one in a heartbeat. I also think it's been cleaned. Not that recently, but not that long ago either. It's just too white for a coin that's been around for over a hundred years and to be in that poor of condition. BUT... putting a circulated set of Barbers together with coins that haven't been cleaned would be very tough. Of the 13 semi-keys, roughly half of mine have been cleaned at some point in their lives. |
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Hi Shadow, Desertgem has said it well. This coin may well have been cleaned at some time, but there is little or no evidence of it from these photos. It looks like a heavily circulated, original dime grading G-4. Hairlines are the most common indicator of an abrasive cleaning. My 1844 Seated Liberty dollar presents a good example of this. Note the many fine hairline scratches in the fields. This is one of the things you want to look for when considering a purchase.   I bought this coin knowing it had been cleaned since the price was right and I liked its look. Nothing wrong with that; you just want to know about the defects before you write your check! |
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Hex ya almost all that are not grade are clean. but I sure the someone somewhere may have a small group of coin VF-CHGBU and not know it or will be found sold or some how get back in the Barber dime market. I hope!  |
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$25 for that coin?
Either grab it or send it to me and I'll pay you for it + postage.
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I would have grabbed it but I think it went up a bit at the last minute, sometimes I get very lucky and people don't notice something, sometimes not : (
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