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I already know that this coin has been brushed or scrubbed to death, and with something other than a tooth brush. Most likely something a body shop uses to remove rust and paint from a car. The funny thing is that those rather severe scratchings that show in the pictures are almost impossible to see with the naked eye or even with a 10 power loop unless you tilt the coin just right. My cell phone camera camera on the other hand seems to see everything. I believe that if I took a picture of my hand with this camera, you would be able to see my bones. With that being said, this was the 29th out of over 250 silver dollars I've bought, and as I already mentioned, I'm posting them here for your comments in the order I bought them. Like almost all the rest, I won this in an ebay auction and from the ebay picture the scratchings must have been impossible to see, because even back then I don't think I would have been interested. That's the bad part, but the good is that I went and looked at ebay recent past sales and see that over the past 2 months there have been 7 sales of 1886 S's in rough, cleaned and F-Details condition, and those sales averaged $51.97 because this is a fairly scarce mint mark in an 1886 Morgan. My Database says I paid $26 for it and that included the shipping. It's pretty ugly so I may sell this, I do have a much better 1886 S in my database that I will post later. But like I always ask, what is your opinion?    Edited by KauaiHawaiiGuy
02/06/2020 6:15 pm
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F Details harshly cleaned
It is an excellent idea to sell and upgrade.
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Bedrock of the Community
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VF details (harshly cleaned).
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I agree, VF details.
It likely was a Brillo pad cleaning by somebody who was right-handed. (The scratches run down and to the left, and each side of the coin was cleaned in two stages, rotated 180 between the scrubbings.)
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likely was a Brillo pad cleaning by somebody who was right-handed Sounds like a Sherlock Holmes type deduction!  Care to take a stab at the glove size of the perpetrator?  |
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likely was a Brillo pad cleaning by somebody who was right-handed I'm left handed and agree it was right-handed swiping. the right side of the coin would have been turning down not up. I'm thinking it was someone in their 50's that was not a collector, with dark hair and likes shiny objects. |
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Likely a Caucasian male did this between the hours of 6pm and 10pm in the winter months.
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Sorry KauaiHawaiiGuy...we needed some light humor. please disregard
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Sorry KauaiHawaiiGuy...we needed some light humor. please disregard No problem panzaldi ........ as a matter of fact I believe I started this "light humor" with the first two sentences of my post when I wrote ...... "I already know that this coin has been brushed or scrubbed to death, and with something other than a tooth brush. Most likely something a body shop uses to remove rust and paint from a car." I just wasn't aware that there were so many aspiring amateur sleuths among the forums members. But I must admit that this is a rather novel approach to grading. Perhaps in the future when submitting a coin we should ask both for opinions on the grade and how it got that way. |
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VF-20 details, harshly cleaned
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Posted 02/06/2020 3:32 pm
