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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeEatWheaties, post: 1153147, member: 26972&quot;]I only collect wheat cents (copper)</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the &quot;it just doesn&#039;t quite look right&quot;&nbsp; method.&nbsp; For the new collector, I think helps to have Certified Mint State examples to compare against.&nbsp;&nbsp; I felt like I had to buy certified examples to learn what I had left to me, since often people would say the coin I posted looked cleaned.&nbsp; One of the biggest things about copper is that the luster will likely be gone on a cleaned coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now with that said, there are exceptions.&nbsp; I recently sold a coin that I thought was original.&nbsp; GD was one of a very few who didn&#039;t concur.&nbsp; Much to my dismay, the buyer who paid my full asking price is thrilled with the coin, I had it listed thinking no one would pay the price I had it listed for since it was listed as cleaned. It had a lot of luster in hand however the camera would not pick it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one set of Lincoln wheats is nearly complete of nothing but cleaned coins!&nbsp; When I show that set to the uninitiated, it blows them away.&nbsp; They think it&#039;s worth tons.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are completely confused when I show them the brown set and tell em its far more valuable.&nbsp; lol</p><p><br /></p><p>I buy raw and certified cleaned coins that are well struck with no other problems because I appreciate the strike and ignore what ever the perceived value of the coin would be to another collector.&nbsp; Thats the whole point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collect what you like, but get educated on what you have. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you are familiar with what causes the luster on a coin, expand these pictures all the way up and you will see that the flow lines in the second coin do not reflect light the way the first coin does.&nbsp; It is important to add that I shoot all my Lincoln cents with the same lighting direction for exactly this kind of comparison.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope all this info helps.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Raw Mint State 1909 VDB Cent</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red">edited</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaned Mint State 1909 VDB Cent&nbsp; (probably dipped)</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red">edited</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red">Your images are infected with the Bloodhound virus so they have been deleted to protect others. Anyone who clicked on the pictures in this post is urged to immediately run a complete virus scan and yes I am deadly serious.</span></p><p><span style="color: red"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red">Eye - I urge you to do the same for your own protection. Either that, or somebody hacked your Photobucket account.</span></p><p><span style="color: red"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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