Ok I found this new Madison dollar in the change dispenser. I put a $5.00 in to get change to play some arcade games and it gave me this new madison dollar but it looks like there is no plating of any kind. I compared it with a new one and it does not look like it at all. All the face lettering is there even the rim lettering shows up without a problem, there are no scrathes or scrapes on the coin at all. Also on the rim you can see what looks like a copper line going all the way around, I don't know much about coins. Just wondering what you would think of it, and I might get it checked to see if it is real. I cleaned it up a bit with some brasso that is the streak you see on the first picture. What is your opinion on the coin here is a pic of the coin the one on the left is the odd one. Here is a bigger more detailed picture http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k313/glitcherscorner/coin.jpg
What a pity, you shouldn't have cleaned it up with brasso. With that, any extra possible value is plummed down to almost slightly over face value. Welcome to cointalk by the way.
Looks like a just toning from circulation, although they did do something to these dollars so they wouldn't turn out like that like the sacs did. Wondering if maybe struck on a sac planchet? Although now hard to tell if it is from toning, because you said you used Brasso on it, and that color could have come from the Brasso. So my answer is it probably isn't an error. Sorry dude. Hold on to it htough, worth a dollar. Do you collect other coins at all? Phoenix
welcome my first thought is that it was a pocket piece for awhile - i know they just came out but if you start handing it around for everyone to see it will start to turn brown like the older Sac's you mentioned that you can see the copper line going around it so it assumed that it has the proper clad layers like quarters and dimes someone could accelerate toning-browning by leaving coins outside, put it in a oven, bake them in oil- many weird things people do to coins to make them look rare- im always skeptical on coins looks snowman
well I didn't scrub it, just took a lint free cloth with a drop of brasso and lightly went over top of the coin, but it did not do anything to the coin at all, just gave it a slight shine. But after riseing it off after I took the pictures it is going back to the look I had before I done anything. Just wanted a opinion really, thanks for the fast reply. oh its not brown at all, it is more of a grey look it is hard to show in the pictures. Oh if I sent it in to get checked, and if for some reason it is not real or has been tampered would I still get the coin back, because I like the way it looks.
The fact still doesn't change - using brasso on coin and gently swip it is like using a drop of 10M of hydrochloric acid on your skin and gently rub it off. It definately hurts.
Except change the surface and irretrievably damage it. Not sure what you mean by "sent it in to get checked". If you think the Mint or a bank will authenticate coins, you're wrong. If you are talking about sending it to a grading company, you'll get it back after paying hefty fees and two-way shipping. If it's a reputable grading company you'll get it back in a plastic flip marked "cleaned". If it's one of the many incompetent/dishonest graders, who knows how it will come back, but it definitely won't have any added value. My advice? Spend it and get your dollar's worth!
all I was wondering is if it is possible to have it checked to see if it is a real error, or if someone infact altered it and spent it. Seeing I did not get it from a roll I can't say it came like that stright from the mint.
I wouldn't spend the effort or money to see if it's a real error. Personally, it doesn't look like an error to me. I would go ahead and spend it, as it's still worth at least a buck!
yeah that is what I am going to end up doing, its not like I am out any money. It cost a dollar and its worth a dollar
It might be a sintered planchet error, and if you sent it to ANACS they would holder it and they could tell you if it was an error, and of course they will put on the holder that it has been cleaned. A genuine sintered planchet error is probably worth about $15. A cleaned one about $3. Grading it will cost about $14, and postage and insurance both ways would be about $16. So for about $30 you can have your, now $3, coin authenticated and slabbed.
