What are your thoughts on this Merc?

lonelyp

I'm just looking right now.




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Cladiator

The seller states, "may have had a light cleaning in the past." Juding by those photo's I'd say it had a pretty heavy cleaning. Look at all the hairlines in the reverse field.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Moderate cleaning

lonelyp

<< <i>The seller states, "may have had a light cleaning in the past." Juding by those photo's I'd say it had a pretty heavy cleaning. Look at all the hairlines in the reverse field. >>




Thats what I thought. Hey I might be gettin a bit better at this.

dorkkarl

it's gonna be shill bid anyway.

K S

Fairlaneman

"May have had a light cleaning in the past"

Sellers that sell coins know darn well whether a coin has been cleaned or not. Treated it as a cleaned coin and pass on the auction because the price is way too high for that coin.

Ken

ricko

Cleaned.. thoroughly. Pass. Cheers, RickO

fc

way too common to waste time on a coin with obvious problems.
i bid one dollar, melt.

jmj3esq

Looks harshly cleaned to me.

Mercury10c

The coin does look cleaned, especially on the reverse in the right field there are some hairlines there.
It is difficult to tell from the pic how lightly or harshly cleaned it is. Remember, Mercs of 1916 and 1917 have
textured fields which can make a coin look like it has been cleaned when it actually was not.
Anyway lonelyp, it's a common enough date that you can keep looking and find one that you are
positive has not been cleaned.