What has been done to this Morgan!!

physics-fan3.14, posted: "Yeah, just polished. You can do this with baking soda and a toothbrush."

Actually, you cannot! Toothpaste and a toothbrush gets much closer to this appearance. However, that was not used on this coin either.


physics-fan3.14, posted: "No. That would leave a very distinctive pattern in the surfaces that this coin does not possess. This coin is not whizzed - it is polished. There is a difference."

There is a difference between polishing & whizzing. However, there is a characteristic look to this coin that is 100% cloth wheel. I've done it many times as a youth in my father's watch shop.

GDJMSP, posted: "Do you guys even know what a jeweler's cloth is? Simply put it is something that is specially made to do what was done to that coin. They are as common as dirt and only cost about $5. And with one, in about 2 minutes you can have a coin looking just like that.

Actually, if you rub on a coin for several months while wearing out a hundred jeweler's cloths, you just might begin to move metal around on the surface of a coin as this. The cloth buffing wheel with some jeweler's rouge is much faster.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.