Help with a 1952 Carver Comm.....

ibzman350

I've been looking over these pics for about a day now, has this coin been whizzed and retoned ???

The hairlines on Carvers face are not as pronounced as they seem in the pic. and the coin has some nice color, golden with some blues around the rims.

I don't know a thing about Comm., bought this coin because it's the wifes birth year. Trying to get some brownie points. .

AU 58 ??










Herb

Gonfunko

The luster looks pretty dead, so it probably was whizzed at one point, although it doesn't look too bad. I think your brownie points may be down the drain after telling your wife's birth year on the Internet, though.

FC57Coins

slightly circulated, cleaned, retoned... Just pass on it - there are zillions of nicer ones out there.

I'll bow on the cleaned and retoned comments to our more learned collector/dealers, but I still think it's AU

coinguy1

I see no evidence that is has been whizzed and/or retoned. I also think it could be mint state, though it's hard to tell for certain from the images.

CoinResource

Looks AU50 or 55 then naturally toned through poor care to me...

Hard to tell whizzed coins from photos like this....

FatMan

It doesn't looked whizzed to me. Looks original and low grade MS. Many of these were not owned by real collectors who knew how to care for them. Most likely just thrown in can or jar with other "treasures". The 1952 is very common and not worth much in any grade up to 65. However, 66+ is very tough.

Nice plan on brownie points. Let us know the outcome. We all need some help in that area.

Russ

<< <i>Just pass on it - there are zillions of nicer ones out there. >>



Yes, there are.





(Not mine, BTW).

Russ, NCNE

BillJones

The coin does not looked whizzed or cleaned to me. The black stuff inside the letters and in the field on the reverse is normal for one of these coins that had not been cleaned since it was struck. It's not pretty, but I've seen coins like that which were totally original.

As for the hairlines on the face, they look like envelope marks or perhaps minor reed marks. Actually this coin is pretty smooth for the design. Many Washington - Carvers have pronounced marks on the face. I think that really nice, smooth examples in MS-64 and '65 are really a bit underrated.

ibzman350

Too late to pass

In hand the hairlines can hardly be seen, it does have quite a few die polish lines.



BTW....... The brownie points thing didn't work too well, just came back in from cleaning the gutters..



Herb

coinguy1

<< <i>BTW....... The brownie points thing didn't work too well, just came back in from cleaning the gutters >>

Herb, don't be so sure about that - perhaps without the brownie points it would have been the toilets instead of the gutters.