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Is this one cleaned??? 1859 Indian Head Cent

illini420illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭
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1859 Indian Head Cent -- Heritage Auction

Been shopping for one of these for my type set. This one just looks way too shiny compared to others for sale. Still learning so I figured I'd ask to be sure, but this definitely looks cleaned to me, just didn't think NGC certified cleaned coins.

Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448

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  • wildjagwildjag Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭


    << <i>just didn't think NGC certified cleaned coins. >>



    Both NGC and PCGS certify cleaned coins. NCS is part of NGC and cleans them before slabbing as well.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May have been dipped,.... did not see (in those photographs) any hairlines. Cheers, RickO
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    No, just difficult to photo thru the slab.
  • Tvac897Tvac897 Posts: 1,478
    Looks dipped to me.
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  • bhartman35bhartman35 Posts: 1,398
    I see lines on the coin that are troubling to me. Look to the upper left and lower right of Liberty's eye. Thsoe look like hairlines to me... image
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I certainly wouldn't call it cleaned based on those photos. --Jerry
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Whatever may have been done to it, if anything, was presumably deemed "market acceptable" by NGC before it was slabbed.
  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    perhaps some light non destructive cleaning at some point, it is a ms62 and from what I can see a very nice one at that.
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the comments, still trying to learn to grade. Just noticed this one didn't quite look like all the others for sale, but I know from previous purchases that the photos aren't always completely accurate!! Thanks again.

    Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448

  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭
    NGC and PCGS slab cleaned coins all the time, as long as it's market acceptable, and do not indicate such on the slab. The services which regularly indicated "cleaned" on the slab, PCI, ANACS and SEGS, were effectively blacklisted by the dealer community.
    Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks to have hairlines on both sides, but I would bet these are from being mishandled over the years and not from an attempted cleaning.
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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Dipped.
  • fcfc Posts: 12,796 ✭✭✭
    not something i would want.

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