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Sorry - still learning how to take the best pictures here.. Need to spend a bit more time in the other forum. The gold is a reflection of the light.. The actual colors are closer to silver.. To my eye, both look cleaned?
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in my opinion (i am probably wrong) they are both polished/cleaned.
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The luster of the second one and the original look of the first one leads me to believe they are both original. The second one may have been cleaned lightly on the obverse, although it is hard to tell.
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I'm going with lafaa on this one. I think they both have had a cleaning at one point or another
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the scratch marks were the things that made me believed that they were polished/cleaned, but of course, it could have been slid across a table, rubbed on pants, kicked, etc. but the way that they are made lead me to believe that they are polished marks. I don't know what it is, but I believe it is polished/cleaned
Edited by Adam_E
04/09/2010 10:38 pm
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Edited by nwc coin
04/09/2010 10:52 pm
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A polished and/or a cleaned coin will have a very bright, unoriginal looking surface. Original luster is a sure sign that a coin has not been cleaned, although a cleaned coin can have small remnants of luster. The first coin I am almost positive has not been cleaned, the lighting is most likely making the obverse look too bright. The second coin may have been lightly cleaned, but as I mentioned above, the luster is a sign that the coin is original.
By the way, I'll say VF-20 for the first quarter and AU-55 for the second.
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VF on the first
The second I would need better pics
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New pictures a little further up - two responses while I was editing my post.
I got the first one for $19.50 and the second one for $99.
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Now thw second one looks to be in the xf-au range. Lost some luster with the second pic!
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I stick with both my assessments, but the 76-CC has a larger probability of being cleaned now. You got a fairly good deal on the first, and a pretty good deal on the second, although I will waited for the Seated experts to chime in. Two quick suggestions though: perhaps you should consider investing in a nice camera, the one I use can be bought for around $100 on ebay and here are two pictures I've taken with it, without a tripod or copy stand:   Also, if you are a fairly new collector or haven't been collecting these too long, I suggest you look at numerous examples, to get a better grip on cleaned and problem free coins. Both are very attractive though.  |
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I believe the 1876cc is a counterfeit. The date does not look right at all, the digits are different heights. Maybe there is a different variety, but all of the ones I looked at on coinfacts have the digits even. Hopefully I'm wrong, but you should try to post some better pics.
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I am concerned about the same thing as Johnny. If you could get us some pics similar to your second photos of your 1854 that would be helpful.
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04/10/2010 08:54 am
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I see what Johnny 54321 is saying but it could be the pictures. (?) I would need to see better ones to make a judgment. But the first pictures of the 1876 CC quarter shows a LOT of shininess you don't usually get with a fake Chinese coin... So there's hope for an authentic (but maybe polished ?) CC quarter...  Edited by Moe145
04/10/2010 12:13 pm
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04/10/2010 3:26 pm
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