GTG - 1921 Buffalo 5c

Since no others showed up for class...lol
Let me teach a student whom wishes to learn.
The coin is a nicely struck specimen. The color and fields are nice ,pretty clean as far as dings....etc.
And you hit the nail on its head....
CARBON SPOTS! Those little black spots that tend to leach out of the coin surface.
They can not be stopped, they can not be removed, as acetone turns them brown , and they like Douglas MacArthur will and did return....RUN fast Forest... from any nickel or coin that has even 1!
That nickel is trashed. It will only get worse over time,and this can happen anytime on a nickel ...From the coin press to 100 years later.
I am clueless why ,and how this happens...but again if you see 1 there will be more, it can happen to a raw or slabed....coin.
As a nickel collector this I have found on all ickel copper coins.
And heres the kick in the butt... you could buy a specimen like the second one I posted....so nice....And then one day ....bingo there's a major problem the size of a pin head.

 

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What about this?the Carbon spot hasn't grown I've had it for around 1-2 years.I not only bought it for the mislabel but its also a not-identified DDO-001 http://varietyvista.com/04a JN DD Vol 1/DDO Detail Pages/1944SDDO001.htm

 

It matters not if it has got worse or not..it's there and I would touch it for spot!
As the coins is 78 years old... and it may not have surfaced unlit 30 years after 45.....
It may not get worse...but its there... and the odds of it getting worse are better than you getting grey sheet for it.
There are a lot of things that can detail a coin... but carbon spots are like a cancer... it's there... and may or may not come back... if your specimen was mine I take the first offer I got.

 

So I shouldn't of paid the $50 for it,great,maybe I can get lucky and see what I can get for it ASAP.

 

1981 Proof Jefferson the poster child for carbon spots!
This proof hasn't changed in years...there no reason to its already trash.

Look at the frost and strike of the proof it was a beautiful key word was....

 

Thanks Paddy and I agree, I avoid carbon spots at all costs. As far as I’m concerned there is pretty much always going to be an example that doesn’t have them unless you’re talking a real rarity which I can’t afford anyway carbon spits or not, so I’ll wait for that example!