Post your cameo coins!!

my father bought them for 45 dollars in 07 off ebay.

 

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Good for him and you. That's when sets contained the great IKE DOLLARS.
Like these sets alot. Regardless of the price it was a steal IMHO.

 

SCHATZY IS THAT 67 really rotated or did you want to make me jump up out of my chair for nothing, LOL.

 

yes thos actually look familiar we just got an 09' proof set acouple of days ago. really nice set. ive heard some people had flawed coins but ive looked at ours with my loupe and havent seen any flaws.(to my untrained eye)..ill post a whole pic tommorow(18 coins).there in the safe and the keys run off.

 

how can u tell if an uncircualted coin is shined/polished?

 

In my opinion polishing will leave very fine brushlike presentation on the coin. Also actually remove the smoothness of the flat surfaces and may leave very tiny pits even under 10x mag. And that with expensive cream polish and a jeweler's cloth.

 

earlier in this thread i posted a pic of a 23 peace dollar and told that it was shined. i took this pic with my cell phone through my loupe. why wouldnt the back and rim get polished.

 

No, I must have not rotated it before I put the pictures together.

 

heres a select few of our 09's had to do the cell phone loupe trick. the whole set pic isnt good, i know but its just to show them all together.

 

It did get polished it probably just retoned a little right there.

 

Finally some original surfaces!

 

The only cameo I have.

 

you didnt like the presidential dollars?

 

The coin will lose its luster, and it will just looked polished.
Your peace dollar and morgan dollar, I'll ask you... "Do they look original to you?"
If the answer is yes, then there is some work to be done! Once a coin is polished and rubbed with some kind of cloth, luster will be gone, and you will see a difference.
There is a big difference between a shiny polished coin, and a coin with actual luster. I see you have proof coins, compare your proof coins, to your morgan and peace dollar, they look nothing alike, proof coins were struck differently, and you can shine that uncirculated coin all you want, but it will never be a proof. Most of the times when a coin has been polished, there will be good amounts of wear on the coin, and hairlines will be visible, your morgan dollar looked to be uncirculated, and then somebody ruined it be polishing the coin.

 

Here is my oldest one. Have lots of modern cameos...

 

Here's two of mine from a 1983 proof set I bought for 3 bucks a few years ago

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Oh my bad missed that post. :smile Nice coins.