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New Member
United States
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I have been sitting on some coins that I got from a person before covid. I recently saw a coin on a local online auction site and that got me thinking about the coins. One of those coins is an 1851 Large Cent that appears to be red and I'm a little (okay, a LOT) skeptical that this coin hasn't been cleaned or altered in some form to make it appear red. The details are incredible on this coin. I anxiously await any feedback.   Edited by retiredairforce2009
09/18/2023 9:10 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
25403 Posts |
Most definitely harshly cleaned. Obverse looks like it was worked over with a wire brush.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
74602 Posts |
AU Detail, cleaned, in my opinion.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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18685 Posts |
sorry my friend this coin has been cleaned within inches of its death. quite a shame as she looks like it could have been an AU coin. it could be a rarer variety but there are 24 known ones and I have no idea which it could be. other than that the coin is hole filler and not much collector value if any
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Agree, AU details (cleaned).
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12057 Posts |
Heavily and harshly cleaned on both sides, reverse also has a substantial amount of pitting/environmental damage
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1048 Posts |
Harshly cleaned and heavily damaged, alas. A TPG would most likely reject it rather than detail it. |
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New Member
 United States
41 Posts |
I figured as much on the cleaning. It is a shame because color isn't as much of a factor as details.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
Au details wirebrushed
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
18685 Posts |
i agree with pristine2. a TPG most likely would not slab the coin |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
959 Posts |
A shame. I just can't understand taking a wire brush to a coin. Looks like it was an AU coin before.
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Bedrock of the Community
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AU details, harshly cleaned.
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