Whizzed?

Is this 1923 peace dollar whizzed?

 

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It has no cartwheel luster

 

No just a nice old Peace Dollar that spent a little time in circulation.

 

I agree with the statement above

 

The field in front of face looks cleaned but it's hard to say for sure from the pics. What is that third pic?

 

Lines from what i think is whizzing

 

yes, to nonexistance.

 

I see no evidence of the coin being wizzed, however, the images are not good enough to tell 100%.

 

Oh, I see now. It's a close up. Since it's round, I thought it was a coin or something. Sorry. It's hard to tell from that. Abrasive cleaning with a cotton towel or something might impart evidence like that too, not just whizzing. What I'd suggest is take some copper cents and zinc cents, clean them up to different degrees (vary the intensity), and then study them in comparison to an original coin

 

I don't think it's whizzed or cleaned. There is nothing in the images that shows that.

 

I see fine directional lines in front of the face and some other areas that would leave me to believe it had been cleaned. Not 100% sure though, lighting can highlight lines and hide others.

 

This one belonged to Lehigh, but I have to steal the image because like he said, it is the poster child of whizzing.

Here is one I commented on a while back:
In the 2nd text box I should have said the even, all over shadow effects are because the wire bristles (or whatever they use) couldn't get into the recessed parts.


These are both pretty extreme cases, but I'd say your Peace Dollar is just a circulated example that was probably cleaned.

 

Thanks guys!