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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrz1988, post: 1533688, member: 21121&quot;]I&#039;ve been buying affordable raw cents on ebay for fun, and try to make sure that I know what I&#039;m buying before I get it.&nbsp; The problem that I&#039;ve noticed with a lot of early copper-nickel indians is that the vast majority floating around (95%+) seem to have an old &#039;cleaned&#039; tone to them.&nbsp; I&#039;m betting that a great deal of them were cleaned in the last 100 years, but after years of looking at just bronze coins I&#039;m having a hard time determining what the color of a well-circulated copper-nickel cent should be.&nbsp; The ones that don&#039;t look cleaned appear to be a bit lighter in color than a bronze coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s deterred me from jumping in to purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any decent pictures showing uncleaned circulated copper-nickel indians?&nbsp; Should I be expecting a slightly different tone from one that is bronze?&nbsp; Below are some samples of what I&#039;m talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Probably cleaned: </p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/140847151043?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item20cb24f7c3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/140847151043?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item20cb24f7c3" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/140847151043?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item20cb24f7c3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe cleaned??:</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/360486693553?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item53eeae6ab1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/360486693553?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item53eeae6ab1" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-VF-XF-/360486693553?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item53eeae6ab1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Uncleaned??:</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-Better-Condition-Fine-/320980070337?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item4abbe72fc1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-Better-Condition-Fine-/320980070337?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item4abbe72fc1" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1859-Indian-Head-Cent-Better-Condition-Fine-/320980070337?pt=Coins_US_Individual&amp;hash=item4abbe72fc1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know, don&#039;t buy on ebay, examine coins yourself, blah blah.&nbsp; Ebay is like gambling.&nbsp; I&#039;m just trying to get some tools so I can learn how to win more often.&nbsp; I figure I must be doing something wrong if I&#039;m finding a TON of cleaned common CN coins but as soon as I move up to bronze the coins suddenly seem fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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