Considered by most to be one of the great rarities of US coinage - considered by others to be nothing more than an after hours contrivance by mint employees. Either way, to own one you will pay a pretty penny and be among a very small group. 1894-S Dime
Wow---if I had around $100,000 to spend I think I might like one of those... But maybe if I wait around someone will find the rest of them....I think if I read right there are 14 that aren't known....wouldn't that be a FIND!!!! Speedy
Nope, I don't have one of these, but would like to have a couple. Now let's be perfectly honest, and answer this question. If I had posted this coin and ask if you thought it had been cleaned, what would your answer have been?
???...what coin?? If a coin is cleaned....that is it...no matter how rare it is, it is still cleaned. SPeedy
Oh the one that you have to click on the link to see.... I don't think I would say cleaned...its a proof and has toned dark...not much eye appeal....and I would wonder if that isn't a fingerprint on the cheek but other than that I think it looks ok... Speedy
My answer would be no. But it certainly appears that something has scraped across the cheek at some point in time. Whether that was the result of being wiped with a cloth, slide marks, being wrapped in tissue paper or just rough handling I cannot say. But the marks are there. It also appears to me that the toning around the outer edges of the obverse was permitted to progress to the point that it is on very verge of corrosion. Hopefully the toning is now stabalized.
Slide marks are what happens to some coins stored in albums. Many coin albums have pieces of plastic that cover the hole the coin is placed into. To put the coin the hole you slide that piece of plastic back out of the way to push the coin into the hole and then back over the coin when finished. But if the coin was not positioned just perfectly in the hole - the plastic would scrape across the face of the coin and you would never even know it. But later, if you the examined the coin with a loupe - all of a sudden there are marks that weren't there before. That's what slide marks are.
