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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nightowl, post: 755574, member: 18614&quot;]I&#039;m 51 years old....and cleaned pennies with a pencil eraser when I was 10, so I think I know very well what that treatment looks like. My Kodak camera will not capture certain features...and tends to wash out details on coppers, and &quot;in hand&quot; .. this coin looks very different. That&#039;s why I&#039;m so insistent....not so much that it hasn&#039;t been cleaned, because maybe there&#039;s a really old cleaning here....but NOT with a pencil eraser. That leaves scratches that look like somebody used a wire brush. The devices of this coin are smooth and glossy, and the fields are rather gunky....just as most circulated coins that are 152 years old should be...but it&#039;s not been harshly abraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nightowl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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