good morning CT. i found this wheat in a roll and it looks incredibly fresh and shiny compared to every other wheat i've found. does it appear cleaned or treated to you fine folks? i'm new to the hobby. thanks in advance.
I once bought a Wheat cent bulk lot that had a lot of cleaned pieces like that in it. But there were dirty coins, too. One was an otherwise nice looking 1914 cent that looked to have at least VF-XF details. Nobody had messed with it, but it had a big gob of dirt underneath the date. I was happy enough to find a VF-XF 1914 "plain" cent, but just to satisfy my burning curiosity, I carefully removed that piece of dirt with a toothpick, to see if the coin had a mintmark hiding under the crud. When I saw it did, my shout of surprise awoke my sleeping spouse. Ta-dahhh! Can you say "700-dollar cherrypick, for less than a nickel?" Cha-ching! The coin cleaned up nicely with a gentle Vaseline rub, without disturbing the original color. Went XF40 at PCGS. That happened in 2006.
