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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 1802795, member: 4350&quot;]Often but not always.&nbsp; Generally though, if there are areas that are lighter with darkness down in the recesses of the design, such as that in the wheat ears, there was probably a cleaning somewhere in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, when there is &quot;stuff&quot; down in the interior portions of lettering such as that in the word LIBERTY, there is a fair chance that the coin was cleaned and retoned.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the color of the images is accurate, a grader might say that the coin is unnaturally toned.&nbsp; That&#039;s terminology that they use to say that the coin might be a little unusual in color due to retoning.&nbsp; For a circulated coin, some of the coloring across the coin is almost too consistent.&nbsp; Often there is some variation to the toning caused by circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also see the squared off color difference around the date that indicates a possible cleaning where the person doing the job, so to speak, was careful not to mess with the date area.&nbsp; That can happen naturally though so you can&#039;t go by that for the entire analysis of a coins surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>Play with another average circ wheat cent.&nbsp; &nbsp; One that is common but shows wear.&nbsp; You can take some baking soda and a little bit of water and lightly use your thumb to clean the surface of the coin.&nbsp; It is good to do one or two so that you can use them to learn what a cleaned coin looks like.&nbsp; This one looks similar to one that may have been lightly &quot;rubbed&quot; with baking soda or believe it or not cream of tartar.&nbsp; These are both materials used by some to do a light but still noticeable cleaning of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being noted,&nbsp; I would lean toward this coin having been cleaned but there is an outside chance that it was not.&nbsp; A coin can look different in an image vs. being looked at in hand.&nbsp; In any case, it is a very pleasing piece and I wouldn&#039;t complain if I had one like it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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