Recently slabbed "Genuine" coins

SanctionII

I rolled the dice on these coins and came up snake eyes. The Trueview photos of the coins do not show them as they look in hand.

Cleaned.

QC

Damaged

JWP

@SanctionII What is the damage on the 1857 FEC?

Walkerguy21D

The first two I agree with.
The third one I don’t know, looks whizzed rather than damaged?

bsshog40

I'm wondering if the FEC may have been tooled.

davewesen

the fields are pitted on the FEC, like sea damaged/buried

braddick

@bsshog40 said:
I'm wondering if the FEC may have been tooled.

Looks both tooled and whizzed, thus "damaged".

Barberian

@JWP said:
@SanctionII What is the damage on the 1857 FEC?

It looks like it was sand blasted.

leothelyon

Someone's failed attempt to turn an AU into MS. by sandblasting over the wear on the FEC, looks to me.

Leo

DoubleEagle59

the flying eagle cent looks whizzed.

JWP

@JWP said:
@SanctionII What is the damage on the 1857 FEC?

This FEC looks great. sand basting of few of mine might help too. Ha Ha

jerseyben

ED or whizzed maybe but I cannot understand "damaged" for that FE.

dcarr

I agree that the Flying Eagle cent was "whizzed" (wire-brushed to impart artificial luster).
Prior to that, it may have had some corrosion.

originalisbest

Sorry that happened to you Sanction, but we live and learn.

SanctionII

For all three coins I bought them long ago for modest money. I thought all three may not grade. Turns out I was right.

Tuition for my hobby edumacation.

winesteven

As a consolation, you have a phenomenal eye in your main niche - U.S. Proof coins from the 1950’s.

These are perfect examples of how one can prosper by developing an expertise in a Numismatic niche (and potentially get hurt without sufficient knowledge in other areas).

Steve

Barberian

@dcarr said:
I agree that the Flying Eagle cent was "whizzed" (wire-brushed to impart artificial luster).
Prior to that, it may have had some corrosion.

[Maybe I can learn something here]

You have direct experience with metals (with a T) and minting beyond what I can imagine, so I feel you're a good person to ask this question - Is there a characteristic signature for a whizzed coin other than "it looks whizzed?"

My understanding is whizzing moves metal and should impart more of a lustrous effect with peculiar false metal flow patterns rather than the typical cartwheel effect of a mint state coin. I can usually spot it, but this coin doesn't seem to have that pattern or at least match that "whiz model" I've created in my mind. It seems to have no pattern to the impacts at all, as if it were struck at a 90-degree angle into to the to the coins surface like sandblasting would do. Could the corrosion help explain this effect?

winesteven

As young males decades ago, we had a different definition for "Whiz", lol.

Steve