Altered surface

Would anyone like to take a stab at why NGC designated this coin with altered surface?

 

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Whizzed - Google it...

 

Not suitable... I'm assuming this one has too much damage to get any grade???

 

TU

 

This is one I got back with the same designation. The surfaces have a similar appearance to yours. I knew when I sent it in there were problems but I thought it would just come back with a details grade. Authentification was more important on this one than the grade.

 

It's still silver and a Carson City, which is a good thing!

The 33 is corroded.

Are they yours?

 

yes I wondered why they wouldn't say details, maybe there is just too much wear for them to make that call.

 

They are in my possession but they are not mine. They were my dads.. They belong to both me and my sister. I'm going through his collection trying to get a rough estimate before we sell them.

 

Don't feel bad. What the hell is recolored??

 

lol

 

only one side too, strange. The obverse eerily similar 2 wheat cents I have bathed in MS 70.

 

Not whizzed, but absolutely polished.

 

"Recolored" is usually used after a coin has been dipped and stripped. It has a pink color, and then someone tries to simulate a natural patina or natural toning. Recolored is a special brand of Artificial Toning, and it often has that weird blue-green look over a pink center, like the coin you show.

 

yes I see the difference

 

I can understand that. The only issue I had was, I know for a fact it was in one of my old Whitman folders since I was a kid back in the late 60's. It was never touched or tampered with by me anyway. Can't say where it was before that!

At the time of submission, I thought it was nice coin. I was testing my non-professional grading skills......I learned a lot!

 

I agree that it wasn't whizzed, or if it was, it was heavily burnished after. What I see is the burnishing.

 

The eagle's head looks like someone took a potato peeler to it. Polished to a T.