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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 10-24-2009, 06:12 PM   #1 (permalink) gillium Junior Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: CA Posts: 5 My Mood: Values for damaged coins This is my dad's collection and he unknowingly cleaned these up with harmful cleaners. The coins are damaged with a lot of scratches. Does anyone know if these still have any value and if people will still buy it? Pics: picasaweb.google.com/gillium02/CoinCollection   10-25-2009, 02:20 PM   #2 (permalink) GDJMSP Numismatist     Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: PA Posts: 23,513 Coins cleaned like that often lose 50-80% of any value they had before the cleaning. Most of them would be worth melt at this point. __________________ knowledge ..... share it   10-27-2009, 12:00 AM   #3 (permalink) gillium Junior Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: CA Posts: 5 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by GDJMSP Coins cleaned like that often lose 50-80% of any value they had before the cleaning. Most of them would be worth melt at this point. Oh my, that's really huge drop.   10-27-2009, 05:10 PM   #4 (permalink) mpcusa Online Dealer of Mpc     Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Indiana Posts: 326 My Mood: Blog Entries: 1 I would agree!, Anything that has been cleaned or polished up typically loses Over half it value, I collect firearms as well, have an old 1878 Colt in its Original state, Worth way more left untouched!!   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. If you don't like the coin, don't trash the person. « New to the site... a fan all the same | worn out large cent » Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Display Modes Rate This Thread Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Rate This Thread: 5 : Excellent 4 : Good 3 : Average 2 : Bad 1 : Terrible Posting Rules You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On Forum Rules Similar Threads Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post Understanding Counterfeit Detection GoldCoinLover Coin Chat 15 06-14-2009 04:33 PM Coin Grading/Authentication Services Reid Goldsborough Coin Chat 57 06-01-2009 03:14 PM Trial Piece, Experimental Coin w/ Design Abnormalities onekram US Coins Forum 8 05-22-2008 12:28 PM A Ramble about Dirty Coins Drusus World & Ancient Coins 15 03-30-2008 05:51 PM LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacks

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