What is your most hated type of problem on a coin?
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For me it's definitely whizzing or tooling. A cleaning is likely done by someone that just doesn't know any better, where is whizzing/tooling is an intentional act to deceive.
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Well, I don't really like it when the coin is bent or has a big hole in it.
An extremely high price tag.
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Tooling & whizzing. I have holed coins and some cleaned ones that don't bother me. But tooling is probably the worst.
"Improperly cleaned" coins that look dead.
Staple scratches
Harsh cleaning
Filed rims or minor mount removals, most other issues are readily apparent, but those can ruin a coin that might otherwise have fantastic surfaces. It’s always a disappointment to see on an especially nice coin.
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Spots. Especially milk spots on new proofs from the mint 🤨
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Anything that would land in a details holder is already excluded. Of those things in a regular holder the most hated problem is a particularly bad hit in the prime focal area. Right after that is a fingerprint. After that fly specs.
Huge rim dings
This. In fact, I would just say, "rim dings".
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Milk spots and carbon fragment contamination trapped in a holder. Peace Roy
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Yep, rim bumps kill it for me.
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I’m not a fan of carbon spots so you can add that to all listed above.
Or, real dark coins.
Whizzing, tooling and harsh cleaning.
There's a place for almost everything, but those three are really tough to ignore, or find any love for.
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Fingerprints.
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Fingerprints and lots of carbon or spots, will not buy a coin with fingerprints no matter how nice it is otherwise. Second most hated is environmentally damaged coins, occasionally I can get past the toning but it is difficult.
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Rim bumps and fingerprints .
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Inflation by Fiat currency destroying their purchase power.
Followed closely by environmental damage.
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For me….holes or marks from ex-jewelry bezels.
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Whizzing and tooling, followed closely by fingerprints in a prime focal area and graffiti... especially on Morgan Dollars where Ms. Liberty is staring at the problem...
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A hole.
No need to call me that, it's just a simple question.
Very situational.
I’d take a chain cent or 1799 cent with most of the above mentioned problems, other than a hole or graffiti.
For Walkers, I better not see any problems other than perhaps a light cleaning.
Anything green.
Hoard the keys.
fingerprint
Anything that you don't notice at the LCS, online, or show but shows up under the my grading lamp, that would get the coin a details grade.
I had a Uncle on my wife's side of the family that was an auctioneer. We were over at his house one time and he had a stack of Morgan dollars on the table polishing them up with silver polish . I told him that he was just runioning the collector value of them. He said "nope" they bring more if they are shiney. I told him I would never buy one from him.
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Harsh cleaning/polishing
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For me, I really hate the amount of small gold coins with ex mount problems.
This!!
Graffiti. Yeah tooling is pretty bad and just as deliberate. But graffiti is impossible to see beyond.
Blast white lifeless mid grade silver coins, some even in graded holders. That means they suffered some of the above listed abuses, but the coins themselves are too ashamed to talk about it.
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Will not buy anything holed, bent, or with distracting fingerprints or edge bumps, but deceptive alterations, such as tooling or whizzing are definitely the worst. Also, intentional damages, such as scratches that appear intentional, including "cleaned" ("wiped" proofs being an exception unless details). I own very few detains coins, but have a couple of very early coins that have small hits or cuts that appear to have occurred in use. Also, a couple early coins detailed as ED that look as good as many contemporary coins that are straight-graded. I've learned to be a bit forgiving with coins earlier than 1800.
I dislike any problem coin so I have none.
Worst for me is a harshly cleaned or whizzed/polished coin. Most of the value is completely destroyed besides the coin looking like crap. On Large Cents, I especially hate large rim dings as they destroy the symmetry of the coin.
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I hate waffled coins. The design is difficult to see and they don't fit well in flips or 2X2's.
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Green toning is my favorite color.
We can agree to disagree .
Generally, I agree with you. However, here are three such coins that I couldn't resist for the price. Close your eyes...
Staple Scratched.
Own none, & have never inflicted this harm to a coin.
Knock on Wood...
Oh, the irony!
Smitten with DBLCs.
Filed rims on pre 33 raw gold. I just quit even looking at those coins 20 years ago unless I knew the seller was above reproach.
20-30 yrs ago, I bought several of these from significant sellers that passed them off. They knew, I learned.
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Scrubbed/brightened gold in a straight-graded holder.
Any coin that has spent some time in a Walmart parking lot.
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Any really valuable coin that some undeserving lucky sod happened to find...