Could someone post a couple pics of damaged coins for my comparisons? Coins, preferably of copper origin, showing soap residue, tape residue, fingerprints, and brush cleaning would be greatly appreciative. Thanks.
The search box on the right hand side of the blue menu bar ( magnifying glass image) is quite useful. put in the word "tape residue" and you get a list of threads. Some just have a post that mentions it, others are an entire thread. Jim
Sorry, Jim, I sort of half done that. I searched for "soap residue" and after searing five or six posts without much success I sort of decided on the shortcut by posting this thread.
You can also make your own examples. Use some common copper memorials, both circulated and uncirculated, use your imagination and go to town on them.
That works if a poster used that term AND spelled it correctly. Try some other "creative" spellings like "resido", "residu", "resedue", etc. You never know how someone may spell a word.
dimeguy - what I would suggest that you do is to use Heritage. You can find countless examples of coins of any date and various denominations with all different kinds of problems - harsh cleaning, rim damage, fingerprints, whizzing, dip and soap residue - basically any problem you can imagine. And there will be excellent blow up pictures for all of them. Just use the auction archives. Pick any denomination and date you like and place them in the appropriate search boxes. Then all you have to do is scroll down the results page until you see a coin that is damaged, harshly cleaned or whatever and then click on the picture to see the blow up. You will find literally thousands of examples.
