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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cheryl Heuton, post: 2754126, member: 87645&quot;]I guess one thing I&#039;m trying to figure out about this coin is why it&#039;s so different from the other ones in the collection. It&#039;s far less worn and a lot shinier. But is that just because it&#039;s been cleaned? How do you tell when a coin&#039;s been cleaned vs just not circulated much? Or is that something that only years of study and experience can teach?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the photo, there seems to be a lot of surface scuffing. But I don&#039;t have the experience of comparing it to many other coins. I&#039;ve done more reading, and I&#039;m realizing that it&#039;s as several of you have said -- there&#039;s a lifetime of information to learn when it comes to coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, since I&#039;m supposed to be helping my mother recover some value from her father&#039;s investment in coins, I&#039;d like to get a rough feel for its worth. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think my grandfather&#039;s intention was to invest in silver without much regard for rarity or condition. Some of his coin rolls were rolled in newspaper from the 1940s. So the coins weren&#039;t even old when he put them away. (And yes, I now know that newspaper was a poor choice for preserving their condition.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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