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Question About Cleaned Vs Circulated Using A 50 Franc Piece.

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Roma2021
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Hello,

As I learn more about coins I think I can safely say I can detect an obviously cleaned coin...however, I am curious if this 50 franc piece looks cleaned? It slightly confuses me because it has some cartwheel mint luster, which I tried to photograph, but many (many) scratches in the rather large fields, which are more evident in the photo. In my limited experience, cleaning with a brush does not remove toning from small crevices, etc.

Is this coin likely cleaned or heavily circulated?
Any thoughts would be very welcome!

R.



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Id say it looks more cleaned since there is still a bunch of detail remaining. That is still a neat coin there, good eye appeal.
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@mrwhatisit . . . I live in Rome and have been finding a lot of these french francs. They seems to sell at reasonable prices and gain little interet from Italian collectors. I agree it's a cool coin.
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