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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RIchard Abanes, post: 5985395, member: 117841&quot;]Hey All,</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of questions for me out of the gate as a new collector, so I hope I&#039;m not bothering everyone. Here is a very bad condition 1917 penny.... Why is it black/gunky? Should I try to clean off the black? If so, what shuold I use, I can see some copper underneath. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I can&#039;t tell if that littel smudge under the date is a rubbed clean mint mark? Or, just another little dab of gunk? </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, on the backside, over the wheat leaf on the left, there SEEMS to be a blob of metal over it. Is that actually a blob of metal or is it just a messed up part of the coin where gunk has piled up and only looks like metal?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks everyone! [ATTACH=full]1244089[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1244090[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1244091[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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