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These pics don't tell us a lot other than it has clearly been cleaned. Whizzing is most often used on higher grade coins in an effort to make them appear uncirculated.
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That's the best I can do for now on the pics. On the reverse images perhaps you can kind of see what I'm talking about with the little shiny flecks all over. I agree it seems like a waste of time to whiz such a low value coin. Maybe I'll stick it under the microscope.
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I know it's been cleaned. My question is how. If not whizzed, some kind of acidic treatment? Buffed? Just trying to identify the appearance for my education.  The reason I obtained this coin (cheap) is because I have been researching Barber dime hub types. 1901 saw the introduction of the "thick ribbon" reverse, where an extra fold was added below the right-hand ribbon tip. In 1901 there was a mix of thick and thin ribbons across all 3 mints. I was accumulating statistics on thick versus thin and noticed that a substantial number of them have this odd "nub" beneath the ribbon where the extra fold was added, sort of making them neither thick nor thin. I wanted a P mint to examine in hand.   |
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@kbbpll, consider asking the mods to move your thread out of the grading section of US coins in order to get more answers to your actual question. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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My actual question is whether it was whizzed or what, so it seems to belong in grading. I tossed in the ribbon stuff for general interest but those images also show the surfaces pretty well.
I would probably go F-12 on a technical grade but maybe F-15. All of LIBERTY is there but barely.
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not sure what they used but the coin was heavily polished. whether mechanical or not doesn't really make much of a difference. since the overall look is consistent it most likely was mechanical like a polishing wheel
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Doesn't look whizzed, just polished
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