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Pillar of the Community
United States
824 Posts |
Something doesn't look right with this 1869 S Half Dollar? Take a look left of liberty's elbow in the drapery, it looks like it is missing some of the drapery. It does match the die marriage of WB-2 but just looks off. What do you think? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1869-s-Sea...!94526!US!-1 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3479 Posts |
Looks legit to me. Just heavily polished. Yaak!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8715 Posts |
It is real, but is harshly cleaned. I recommend you do not purchase this coin. Seller states in the description that no coin is original; all coins have been cleaned, it's just the level of cleaning.  I recommend you examine all items sold by this seller carefully. They have some original coins for sale, but most of their higher-grade examples are polished. Edited by SilverDollar2017
03/17/2018 5:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
824 Posts |
That is some extreme polishing, I have no intentions of buying this, It just looks off along with the polishing.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
What percentage price reduction would need to be applied to be able to sell it for an advantageous price for the buyer?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
That would depend on what he paid for it, I think! It's genuine, but a freak, and woe to the person who eventually buys it. It's ebay, step right up folks. |
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Rest in Peace
10197 Posts |
Gee, wouldn't it be sumthin if it was a polished MAGNETIC fake...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
No surprise what seller this is. His Mercs usually look just like this.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5672 Posts |
Agree it's heavily polished. I see that missing drapery under the left arm, perhaps a Grease Filled Die. Also, nice die clashes on the reverse, too bad about the harsh cleaning. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4416 Posts |
Yes, this seller typically sells cleaned and problem coins, avoiding accurate descriptions in the process. I found, by personal experience, that his pics were deceptive. He accepted the return without issue but blocked me as a future buyer. I learned that when I tried to bid on a counterstamp he had. It was a good piece, so I had a friend purchase it for me.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Whizzed, not just polishing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
655 Posts |
This coin has been so heavily dipped it looks like it was painted with silver. No regular dealer of coins would not suspect this. If he offered up the coin as such for $100-150, with the proviso that it's only genuine, he'd get my respect. Instead, he takes a cheap shot at the TPG system with this statement, as if it somehow justifies his less than ethical practices: Our estimate is that grading services clean over 10,000 coins each week. Some dealers literally send thousands of coins in Plastic Proof set/Mint set containers to grading services. The grading services "crack them out" and dip them to remove toning and haze. Grading services charge for their service and will grade the coins they clean with a SOLID grade without reference to having cleaned them.In no way is this true. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Took that one to the buffin' wheel!
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Moderator
 United States
15433 Posts |
 Stay away |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
For the new naïve collector, those nice shiny coins probably look better than the old original old coins.
This seller may have taken advantage of selling to a certain buyer niche. The uneducated.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
The coin has been polished. The die has also been extensively polished and that is why the drapery is missing. You can also see heavy die polishing lines in the left field and around the rock. The missing drapery isn't from Grease Fill because the missing portions are the shallowest areas of the design meaning they are the HIGHEST portions of the incuse design. As the planchet metal pressed against the "grease" it would tend to push it "downhill" into the deeper recesses of the design and weaken the high relief areas. |
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Posted 03/17/2018 5:20 pm
