Pretty sure I bought a cleaned coin

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by OnEWB, Mar 19, 2016.

  1. OnEWB

    OnEWB Active Member

    I bought this today and really looked at it when I made it home. Here are the best pics I could get.
     

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  3. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    Hard to tell. I'm not seeing much other than a few hairlines that seem to go in the same direction, but that might have come from circulation. Your 2nd obverse picture shows this most clearly.
     
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  4. coppell_collect

    coppell_collect Junior Member

    It's very likely cleaned but in this case won't affect the value.
     
  5. physics-fan3.14

    physics-fan3.14 You got any more of them.... prooflikes?

    It may have possibly been cleaned a long time ago (many coins were). However, this coin appears to have regained most of its patina. I'm not seeing evidence of harsh cleaning in your pictures (in hand, that may be different).
     
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  6. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    It's cleaned and it won't grade like that. What did you pay for it?
     
  7. OnEWB

    OnEWB Active Member

    I paid $35.
     
  8. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    It's aging well. I'll say you have it in F15, right around there.
     
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  9. OnEWB

    OnEWB Active Member

    So I didn't get a bad deal?
     
  10. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    I don't know the mintage, but let's say its common. I'd say then you paid too much. I'd pay 20 at the most and could find them for that. But you didn't get a major rip off. Just be more careful next time. My impression is that it looks cleaned, probably several years ago, but it was cleaned a little too harshly in my opinion and it shows
     
  11. longshot

    longshot Enthusiast Supporter

    This date/mint is known to have an overdate, you can look for any sign of a 6 under the 7.
     
  12. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    The price books will say you overpaid a little, but so what, it has nice eye appeal for the grade. The TPGs won't straight-grade it, but that's their business. In reality, coins this old at that grade-level are going to have compromised surfaces like this, and be scraped, too. You've got one that isn't that bad. Try finding one better at that grade-level, and I think you'll see that. This coin circulated, but that's what it was supposed to do. Did someone rub it along the way? Did they have malice aforethought in mind when they did it? Let the coin detectives figure that one out.
     
  13. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    The gold and silver places around here are paying $20
     
  14. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    Pretty much exactly that.
     
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