1908 Indian Cent Unc - Natural or cleaned?

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  1. NYandW

    NYandW Makes Cents!

    1908 Indian cent.jpg 1908 Indian cent reverse.jpg

    Folks, From the photo what is your opinion on this coin surface, toning, and color? Thank you.
     
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  3. Insider

    Insider Talent on loan from...

    100% NOT ORIGINAL. Coin is polished (rounded, shiny relief); AU-55 to 58 not that it matters; and the color will fool most as it is pleasing.
     
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  4. Omegaraptor

    Omegaraptor Gobrecht/Longacre Enthusiast

    Harshly cleaned AU (look at the cheek) with three diamonds. Not original.
     
  5. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    ?
    Would this be a candidate for whizzing?
     
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  6. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    Lacquered is the correct term here .
     
  7. eric6794

    eric6794 Well-Known Member

    defiantly cleaned, probably with some sort of brass cleaner.
     
  8. physics-fan3.14

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

    Doesn't look whizzed, but definitely cleaned in some unnatural way.
     
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  9. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Appears to me to have an oily sheen. (Could be the light.) But it suggests that someone did something, and this is not the way the coin would appear naturally.
     
  10. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I'd be willing to bet somebody used Coin Care on it.
     
  11. Insider

    Insider Talent on loan from...

    I think @Rick Stachowski may be correct. The lacquer is reflecting the light and there is a raised "build-up" between the "ON" in "one" and inside the lower part of the other "N."
     
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  12. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    100% guaranteed cleaned
     
  13. Insider

    Insider Talent on loan from...

    Hey, Great catch!
     
  14. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    sarcasm?
     
  15. Insider

    Insider Talent on loan from...

    That is not allowed on Coin Talk. :angelic:
     
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  16. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    I just liked @Insider's post...was that sarcastic?:)
     
  17. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    BTW, BlueRibbon/Coin Care is oil. All hydrocarbon (C and H) solvents. Protects by coating and keeping air away, AFAIK.
     
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  18. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    And that's what gives the coins that shiny, glossy look. :)

    It's quite commonly seen on copper. For if used correctly - and in this case it wasn't - it imitates the look of chocolate brown MS copper. It has been used to fool many a collector, and even the TPGs.
     
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