Your Thoughts On This 1953 SF Cent? (Edit - Whizzed)

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SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 05/15/2018 11:37 pm Rarely seen this red... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff

KHatt Valued Member Canada 291 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 12:14 am Without seeing it in person, I'd say suspected cleaning. There's some lines above the KG that look like they could be hairlines/brush lines, and beside the E in elizabeth there is some surface disruption that might be pitting? And the hair is a little light on detail... I'd say AU - Cleaned Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 12:41 am Lacquered? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
thedollarman Pillar of the Community Canada 4911 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 01:03 am nice whizzing job there Feel free to call me Will. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 01:47 am Quote: nice whizzing job there Well, that did not take long... good eyes everyone!! I found this coin going through an old unsearched sack of Canadian cents. This sack does have the odd BU early Elizabeth II and George VI cents and this one jumped out at me. It is the first time I have seen this good of a whizzed small cent from the Elizabeth II era. Anyone who knows this series, also knows just how hard it is to get a nice, red gem 1953 SF cent. This coin was mint state to begin with, and someone decided to "enhance" it by whizzing. I am glad I caught this one, and have added this coin to my teaching collection of altered small cents. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
doubleeagle59 Pillar of the Community Canada 2495 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 08:58 am A textbook case of whizzing indeed. Save the picture and show it anytime someone asks "what does whizzing look like?" Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 10:31 am IMO mechanically polished perhaps but not whizzed, whizzing moves metal to simulate luster and sharpen the devices in order to make a worn coin appear less so. I see none of the hairlines imparted by whizzing in these pics. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 4:19 pm Quote: I see none of the hairlines imparted by whizzing in these pics. Look below the RA of GRATIA on the obverse and how the hairlines go right up onto the obverse Look above the designer's initials KG on the reverse. Lots of hairlines in different orientations give this coin amazing cartwheel lustre. Remember that on small cents, die polishing marks always are north-south. Bear in mind that whizzing can also be done with plastic brush wheels... metal is not moved, but toning and patina certainly is!! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
doubleeagle59 Pillar of the Community Canada 2495 Posts	Posted 05/16/2018 9:00 pm Here's another typical whizzed coin. I see exactly the same surface on this one as with the OP's 1 cent. Report this Post to the Staff
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