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Valued Member
Canada
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Hey guys! I recently purchased a large collection from a collectors daughter. He passed down his coins over 20 years ago before he passed away. Included in the collection was over 95 double dollar sets, specimen sets, tons of old paper money, and binders of coins. I have a binder with over 300 nickel dollars to variety search for. Included in the first few pages of coins were these 6 coins. They look beautiful. I've always been more of a NCLT collector but recently decided to vast away from my horizon and start collecting circulation coins. My main concern, are these pennies cleaned? 2 of them have a bit of tape residue on them from improper storage. They seem quite red and clean for such old coins without proper storage. Also, if anyone is feeling up to it, can you give me an opinion of the grades for these 6 coins! I appreciate everything you guys do on here! I've had such an amazing experience so far.       |
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Valued Member
 Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Certainly the first one is cleaned. The others seem OK, though the lighting makes it difficult to be sure.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
683 Posts |
All have been cleaned hashly and polished.
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Valued Member
Canada
97 Posts |
Hey Optimal. How can you tell? I dont know much about cleaned coins
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Valued Member
Canada
221 Posts |
I have the same opinion as Optimist-numismatist Quote:
Hey Optimal. How can you tell? I dont know much about cleaned coins @NorthWestInvest: Unnatural colors + Multiple hairlines (Little scratches) + Softened reliefs I'm sorry if my English isn't perfect... I'm learning a little more every day.
Edited by ainsivalavie
09/30/2018 8:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8715 Posts |
All look polished to me. The color and the reflectivity of the fields point to a cleaning.
Edited by SilverDollar2017
09/30/2018 8:07 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
395 Posts |
Definitely in agreement with everyone else harshly clean/polished. Hopefully the rest of the coins aren't like that. On the plus side looks like alot of fun work ahead of you.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5589 Posts |
Yes, all cleaned. The 5 cent is VF for actual wear, but it is covered in scratches and dings, so probably F-15 net. The 2 1919's .. first one is XF wear, but spots/scratches take it down. The 2nd '19 is VF-20 wear and heavily cleaned. The '33 is VF-30 but spots take it down. The 2 '42's are XF-40 wear, but lowered due cleaning/spots. All nice to look at, but not worth much ... good golf-ball markers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8938 Posts |
like the robot from wally Quote:
Forign contaminate.... now cleaned... now cleaned |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36770 Posts |
All have been cleaned and would carry a "details" grade.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
987 Posts |
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How can you tell? I dont know much about cleaned coins In my opinion, the telltale sign of cleaning exhibited on your coins is the change in color around and within the edge lettering where the cleaning did not reach. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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n my opinion, the telltale sign of cleaning exhibited on your coins is the change in color around and within the edge lettering where the cleaning did not reach. As an example:   Edited by Dorado
10/02/2018 6:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
851 Posts |
All cleaned imo.
Sounds like a fun collection to sort through though.
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Posted 09/30/2018 6:06 pm
