Was this coin whizzed?

I was thinking about submitting this for grading but I think it might look whizzed. What do you think?

 

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I don't know about whizzing, that's mainly done in the fields. This one has brush marks all over the coin. Do not waste your money sending it in for grading.

 

I'm unfamiliar to this type of "whizzing"

Please enlighten, my best guess is another term for harshly cleaned from what I can see from the pictures.

 

Not true! It looks like whizzing to me.

Chris

 

Could the scratches have came from the die itself?

 

Isn't true whizzing done to smooth out imperfections? I mean sure it's severely cleaned or wiped or whatever, but there was no attempt to smooth anything here. This looks more like a polish to me.

 

I'm thinking someone brushed it by hand.

 

Not in this case.

 

Not sure if it's whizzed or not. I'm sure it's been doctored or cleaned in some fashion.

 

I call this abrasively cleaned.
Although whizzing also involves significant rubbing the results are different.

 

Whizzing is done with a high speed rotary tool and a very fine wire brush.
The lines on this coin are almost straight.

 

And as I understand it the heat generated from friction creates a small ridge perpendicular to the scratches where they end.

 

Looks to me like it was intentionally scratched for whatever silly reason.

 

I'm not sure. It does create a fake luster look that can be hard to see in images. You can sometimes see a buildup of metal next to the devices. Some do a great job at it. It has to be tough to do it right. Every false move would show.

 

Certainly harshly cleaned...probably non gradable.

 

I agree. I would guess either by accident or to remove something this coin was abrasively cleaned. Usually whiz doctors use much tinier scratches. Remember whizzing is not supposed to be visible to the naked eye, and fool a buyer that a coin has original mint luster. The whizzing is tiny scratches, tiny enough to appear like mint luster. Either this is the worst whiz job in the history of coinage, or its just a cleaning job.

 

Not whizzed. Cleaned, hair lined. No grade coin for sure.

 

Your coin looks like some one just wiped it down too harshly, but without any type of solution. It still would be certified as improperly cleaned.

 

Not these type of scratches.

 

Great answer.