1909S VDB from Whitman book...

BlindedByEgo

Which has been in the book for over 2 decades. Trying to figure out the swirly marks, seems to have toned over something old. Opinions?





Sorry, hit return a little quickly...

Craton

My opinion is that you should send it to me. I'll PM my addy!

DickyBetz

Nice VF-30!

MikeInFL

Thank you for the generous giveaway.

BlindedByEgo

<< <i>Thank you for the generous giveaway. >>



Of course. I live to serve, you know. How else may I be of assistance?

CoinOnTheCob

Here’s mine. I sent it to ANACS and it came back with “Whizzed” on the label.




The white lines are from the dirty glass in my scanner.

Craton

<< <i>Here’s mine. I sent it to ANACS and it came back with “Whizzed” on the label.

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Doesn't look whizzed to me but looks dipped due to the dull orange color. Nice coin though!

LastExitInNY

whats whizzed mean?

LastExitInNY

also is an ordinary scanner good to use for coins ?

BlindedByEgo

<< <i>whats whizzed mean? >>



Whizzed describes the doctoring of a coin by moving metal, to imitate mint luster. It generally disturbs the flow lines of the metal created in the minting process. It's not good, and can be very deceptive if done well.

For more info visit http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article2341.chtml for a breif article. Google the term for more in-depth information.

And yes, a good scanner will take perfectly acceptable images of coins, although I find them somewhat less convenient. A camera, I have found, is easier and takes generally more consistant images once the white balance is set correctly.

Hope that helps.

BlindedByEgo

ttt for the morning

jabba

Not sure about the grade but it might have been cleaned before being put in there, still a very nice find!

carl

May depend on which Whitman album it was in. If it was one of those cheap ones where you push the coin into a slot and if you look you'll notice a slight film of some kind of glue on the inside of the slot. It appears they glued the entire sheet before they put the page with the wholes on and the glue is still there. Many people I know that did use those type of albums all have some kind of weird discolorations from that glue, thier thumbs from pushing into place. Never had that problem though with the better albums with the plastic slides for front and back.

kieferscoins

<< <i>
Doesn't look whizzed to me but looks dipped due to the dull orange color. Nice coin though! >>



whizzing is hard to see by a scan but the color is definately off and under a loupe I bet you will see moved metal on the high points from the whizzing.

Cameron Kiefer