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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7370943, member: 24314&quot;]GoldFinger1969, posted: &quot;The coin has <span style="color: #b30000">cleaning or abrasion marks on the obverse</span>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Good, but you&#039;ve missed a lot.&nbsp; You should apply for a job at a major TPGS!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting. All we know after your post is it is an 1907 Indian cent with <span style="color: #b30000">cleaning or abrasion marks on the obverse. </span><span style="color: #000000">It would have been better to tell the blind man what makes it look like a proof.&nbsp; The quiz asked &quot;players&quot; to <b>DESCRIBE WHAT THEY SEE.</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Randy Abercrombie, posted:&nbsp; &quot;I would say this was an <span style="color: #b30000">Indian head cent</span>. It was held tightly with a cutting tool of some sort likely to gain traction while the owner <span style="color: #b30000">scrubbed</span> black scuz with something approximating a Brillo pad leaving residue behind from a poor rinsing process.... However the<span style="color: #b30000"> damage</span> was already done.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Evan Saltis, posted: &quot;<span style="color: #b30000">Indian female bust facing left, wearing headdress with &#039;<i>LIBERTY</i>&#039;, surrounded by date (1907) and the inscription &#039;UNITED STATES OF AMERICA&#039;</span> wire brushed as well.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Great start, What else?&nbsp; Wire Brushed?&nbsp; What does that look like on the coin?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It appears you are way too intelligent to help the blind man.&nbsp; Better to answer your own question such as:<span style="color: #b30000"> round, copper</span>, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>johnmilton, posted: &quot;It has a <span style="color: #b30000">corrosion spot to the right of the date.</span> Someone tried to lift it without total success.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>EXCELLENT observation.&nbsp; Need more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Johnmilton continued: &quot;Looking at it the for a second time, I don&#039;t think that the &quot;7&quot; in the date looks right. Could this be a counterfeit?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>None of my tricks in this quiz posted to train your eyes and descriptive powers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If this is good enough for you, … you just earned yourself a <span style="color: #ff4da6">pink participation ribbon.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mac McDonald, posted: &quot;<span style="color: #b30000">A 1907-dated, left-facing Indian (male) cent, brown in overall color, with the indian in a full/ceremonial or war bonnet with pronounced scratches/cleaning abrasion marks across the face/cheek and neck, plus in the field to the front/left of the face. There are some other dings here/there around the rim plus some light discoloring in limited areas,</span> also likely from either cleaning or exposure to ? over the years. No reverse is visible in the photo.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what a description of a coin for someone who cannot see it means.&nbsp; Very good, now we are getting somewhere but more is needed. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice observations but it is not SPECIFIC.</p><p><br /></p><p>expat, posted: &quot;<span style="color: #b30000">It is dated 1907 with the 7 looking not quite right. The color is a bright orange and un-natural looking. There are many gouges around the rim, pronounced dotted scraping of the bust and field</span> where a power tool of some kind has bounced and skipped across the surface.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Very good.&nbsp; This with many of the comments above are making the coin more visible to the imagination.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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