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New Member
Bulgaria
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Hi there - first of all nice to meet you all - I am newbie in here and I am from Bulgaria so please excuse my poor english.. see you all have some good skills grading US coins so please help grade this sweet little Indian cent - 10x a lot! so this is the coin   Moved to Classic Grading section
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Moderator
 United States
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 It's great to have you here. First of all, your English sounds perfect! I would call this a VF30 but unfortunately, looks like it may have been cleaned. Might just be the lighting. The obverse looks original. swcoin.ecrater.com
Edited by vermontensium
07/23/2009 6:51 pm
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
, to the community, I'm going to grade this a little lower at VF-25, and it does look like it has been cleaned at sometime. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
The reverse looks EF40 with the obverse around VF25. Are you sure that's the same coin?  VF30 seems like a fair grade overall. It's not a high value coin so I wouldn't be too concerned about an old cleaning. to CCF! |
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Rest in Peace
United States
4849 Posts |
I agree with the cleaning/polishing and an XF-40 reverse. The obverse does look weaker, but I think that it in part is due to the photo, so I'd be a bit more generous and guess VF-35 details. It does kind of look like a different coin.
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New Member
 Bulgaria
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10x all.. its really a low-price coin but the difference between reverse and obverse made me post it here for a grade.. this is the same coin but the reverse look much better even with a shiny luster. Maybe after all I should agree in case like this the grade of the worse side.. something between VF20 - VF25 And one more question - does it look like cleaned from both sides or just the weak obverse - how do you tell there was a cleaning - I am really a newbie in coin collecting and it is very interesting to me to know how to make the difference and avoid cleaned coins in future. Here is another link of the same coin but here is a scan of the same reverse http://dox.bg/files/dw?a=66464bcdd6 and again obverse http://dox.bg/files/dw?a=cd166441f9 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1882 Posts |
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but the reverse look much better even with a shiny luster. Maybe after all I should agree in case like this the grade of the worse side.. something between VF20 - VF25
And one more question - does it look like cleaned from both sides or just the weak obverse Just to clarify...I think folks are saying the reverse looks like it has been cleaned. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6385 Posts |
It is the reverse that looks cleaned. The color is too bright and brassy for a copper coin that is worn to the VF or EF level. If you compare this reverse to original Indian cents with similar wear I think the difference will be obvious. An excellent resource is the Heritage auction site which offers photos of coins previously sold in their auctions. You can join Heritage for free and your membership gives you access to their auction archives. Here's a link to their website: http://coins.ha.com/ . |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One problem here is that it appears that the two sides were photographed in different condition, the reverse looks like it had a flash while the obverse looks like external lighting. Using a flash can sometimes throw a glare on a coin and give it the appearance of being cleaned. You may want to try and reshoot the coins in the same light conditions.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Choice VF30 with a better reverse and trapped dirt in A and R.
I agree it almost looks like two different coins.
I don't think it was cleaned or they would have cleaned out the gunk in the lettering as well or they just cleaned one side.
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Valued Member
United States
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Looks to have been cleaned up some. I'd give it a VF25 |
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