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Looky what I found in a bag of wheaties.........
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SUMORADA
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Ive found afew IHC's looking through the countless Wheatie bags, but yours is in alot better shape than the oones I find.
Also looking for VF-EF Seated halves.
Sell me your old auction catalogs...
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It looks fine to me, diameter is 19.11 mm weight is 3.012 grams.
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That's crazy.
Finding an IHC is rare enough, but a '72? Wow.
You definitely suck.
I did OK with a bulk lot of Wheaties, once.
(Graded XF40).
Nice to see you back LM@@
Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
that should quailify as a "you suck" for what you paid versus what it's worth
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<< <i>I'll second the thought by MikeinFL. It doesn't look genuine to me. I've even owned an electroplate counterfeit of this date. Yours is suspect especially because of the odd look of the date, and the mushy details. >>
I was hoping Rick Snow would chime in....I was thinking the same thing. Odd look, weak spots , lettering and date seem soft.
It has been soaking for a couple days in mineral oil, it was pretty cruddy, I'll get some better closeups of it in the morning, its at the office, I also found several other IHC's in the group, mostly common and a damaged and holed 1871.
I found an 1893 in a roll of pennies I got from a bank once--------but that was 35 years ago!
That's a great find. Worth at least $500 once autheticated.
I'd say it's genuine but I'm not an IHC expert.
<< <i>Can you get a coin that has soaked in mineral oil or olive oil graded by one of the three big TPG's? >>
Sure. I Vaselined that '14-D shown above. When I found it, there was a gob of dirt stuck over the D, which is probably why nobody found it before me. I was going through the Wheatie bag in poor light and it caught my eye because it was in pretty nice condition for a coin from the 'teens. I was just happy thinking I'd found a nice 1914-P, when I saw the little blip under the date. "No way," I said to myself. "It couldn't be... that has to be a blob of dirt."
Well, it WAS a blob of dirt under the date. But guess what I found when I removed it!
It took a toothpick and some Vaseline to carefully get the crud off, and as you can see, the coin slabbed just fine. My treatment really wasn't much different from the olive oil or mineral oil soaking method. (I just prefer Vaseline, personally). It's a good way to clean copper of loose dirt, without messing up the color (unless you rub too hard, which of course I was careful not to do).
Just like Mr. Miyagi said. Wax on, wax off. (Well, Vaseline on, Vaseline off).
So can the grading services tell if a coin has been soaked in mineral oil? If they make such a determination will they bodybag it?
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