1827 large cent

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  1. jerryc39

    jerryc39 Well-Known Member

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  3. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    Looks like a nice honest Large Cent to me.
     
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  4. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    The orange areas seems to me that it has been cleaned.
    And there is verdigris. Copper is not orange but it will look like that when it
    has been cleaned. With an old copper like this you want a more chocolate example. Yes, new copper will be shiny and bright (still not orange) but when old copper is cleaned you get this false color. Just my opinion.
     
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  5. jerryc39

    jerryc39 Well-Known Member

    Might be but photography lighting can too.
     
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  6. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Yes that's true. But it appears to be verdigris and evidence of cleaning none the less.
     
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  7. Mr.Q

    Mr.Q Well-Known Member

    Obverse high points are good, reverse not so much. Fairly nice coin.
     
  8. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Cleaned. I've found nicer out of the ground. Sorry.
     
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  9. jerryc39

    jerryc39 Well-Known Member

    You can look through the coins available to buy on e-bay and I can assure you there are hundreds for sale on there right now that are worse than this one. Ground coins have porosity normally and there is none of that going on here. I don't think the color will look like these pics in hand. Coin was less than $30 so I am not going to get hurt on it.
     
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  10. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    For less than 30 bucks, I think you did OK.

    As to @SensibleSal66 's nicer ones from "out of the ground", I'd like to see those.

    I have seen some pretty pristine large cents come out of the ground down here in SE GA, but seldom that smooth. Even the nice ones usually have some degree of porosity.

    Here is a really nice 1798 S-166 that a friend of mine dug down here. It's super nice, but you can see it does have a degree of granularity on the reverse.

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  11. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Here's a Onesie and a Twosie.
    1803Lg centObv-side.jpg 1847lgobv-tile.jpg
     
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic numismatist Moderator

    That 1803 is certainly not better than the 1827 that the 1827 in the OP, in terms of surface preservation.

    The 1847 is indeed sharp in terms of details- but it does have the telltale granularity (porosity).
     
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  13. jerryc39

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  14. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    The prob is that copper reacts and when it is in the ground a long time it is always going to have ED. The top coin while a great find has ED and the bottom coin as mentioned even though it has good details, you can see the mottled porosity from being in the ground. Although the reverse looks better than the obv. Color wise they don't look cleaned because as I said when copper is cleaned you get a pink or orange tone which is unnatural looking and unmistakable.
     
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  16. Jeffjay

    Jeffjay Well-Known Member

    none of us will look as good at 199 years old.
     
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  17. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    Except Doug ( @GDJMSP )
     
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  18. mrweaseluv

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    suck up
     
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