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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 1109746, member: 16133&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, even if you didn&#039;t clean it, someone before you probably did.&nbsp; A Morgan Dollar in VF condition should not be bright and shiny at all, it should have a patina from circulation, silver shows a patina different than today&#039;s coins do, I&#039;d want that coin to have some dirt and darker toning.&nbsp; Years back the trend was to take &quot;those dirty old coins&quot; and &quot;shine them up to make them all pretty and nice&quot;.&nbsp; Unfortunately when you do that the original surfaces of the coin are irreversibly damaged <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, that doesn&#039;t make it a bad coin, but it greatly impairs the value and the collector interest in the coin.&nbsp; I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it&#039;s important to know this as you buy more coins, a number of unscrupulous dealers buy what are known as &quot;problem coins&quot; for pennies on the dollar and sell them for full retail to people who are inexperienced.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve all bought coins and made mistakes before, this is how ya learn.&nbsp; I&#039;ve screwed up on much more valuable coins myself.&nbsp; Again, the more you learn the better your collection will be.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, I could be wrong and the scan may be messing this up too and the coin could be fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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