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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3825768, member: 10461&quot;]I once bought a Wheat cent bulk lot that had a lot of cleaned pieces like that in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there were dirty coins, too.&nbsp; One was an otherwise nice looking 1914 cent that looked to have at least VF-XF details.&nbsp; Nobody had messed with it, but it had a big gob of dirt underneath the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was happy enough to find a VF-XF 1914 &quot;plain&quot; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I saw it did, my shout of surprise awoke my sleeping spouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ta-dahhh!&nbsp; Can you say &quot;<i>700-dollar cherrypick, for less than a nickel</i>?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Cha-ching! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin cleaned up nicely with a gentle Vaseline rub, without disturbing the original color.&nbsp; Went XF40 at PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>That happened in 2006.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/11698517_Large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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