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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prethen, post: 31797, member: 1756&quot;]This weekend I&#039;m going to be looking at purchasing a number of raw Indian Cents and I must admit that I don&#039;t have a lot of knowledge in the area of avoiding counterfeits or &quot;problem&quot; copper (I mainly deal with nickel and silver).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1877 (I&#039;ve been told) is in pretty worn shape. I know to look for uniform &quot;7&#039;s&quot;, angular bottoms of the &quot;7&#039;s&quot;, and a soft center strike (&quot;N&quot; and &quot;E&quot;) of the reverse. On a coin that&#039;s pretty worn, what are the chances that it&#039;s a counterfeit? What other tell-tale signs might I look for (especially on a heavily worn coin)? I think the CDN for Good is about $240; what&#039;s a fair price for About Good, Fair, or Poor?</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than a clear &quot;s&quot;, what am I looking for to make sure the &quot;S&quot; minted coins are not counterfeit. I realize that the spark-erosion dies will create a &quot;bubbling-effect&quot; on the coin in some cases, but are there obvious points to look for?</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had my (dopey) father&#039;s Indian cent collection (which I moronically gave him) because he <b>cleaned</b> all the them to make them look nice! Since he&#039;s a 1000 miles away (and besides, if he was any closer when he told me that, I&#039;d be in jail today&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ), I don&#039;t have the opportunity to see what a bunch of various cleaned Indian cents might look like. I don&#039;t have any &quot;spare&quot; Indian cents to experiment with. What should I look for that might be unnatural for these coins, that is a sign it has been cleaned (of course, it shouldn&#039;t look &quot;coppery&quot;)?</p><p><br /></p><p>When grading Indian Cents, are there grading subtleties that the grading books don&#039;t point out? For instance, are there certain years that need to take in a generally weaker strike, especially when looking at the &quot;Liberty&quot;. I&#039;m going to use the PCGS book as my main guide for grading them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any other advice when examine these coins as a whole?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! If I purchase them, I&#039;ll try to be sure to provide scans on this forum. </p><p><br /></p><p>[By the way, I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;m breaking any sort of etiquette or anything, but this is a cross-post from a forum on the PCGS boards.&nbsp; I hope that&#039;s okay.][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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