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can a bodybagged coin be fixed by being a pocket piece

BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
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say if a gold coin has minor cleaning or polishing and got bodybagged could six months in the pocket help it enough to get graded?

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  • RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328 ✭
    Minor cleaning seems more likely to be counteracted than a polishing.

    In general though, anything's possible. I've seen everything from immediately resubmitting as a "cure" for a prior bodybag (with the as hoped for results - i.e. slabbed) on one end of the spectrum to keeping a coin in a paper bag with matches for several years (as just one example) on the other end of the spectrum.
  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭
    Maybe, but likely would take much longer than 6 months! And, you have to ask yourself what its worth as a circulated piece vs a higher grade but cleaned piece. Turn it into a PCGS slabbed Po01, and let talk!
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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    There is a good chance the wear from being in with other change will remove the indication of cleaning, however, the grade will most likely go down. Let's say the coin was a MS63 cleaned. When your done it would probably be AU and possibly even XF. Is it worth the reduction in grade?

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  • scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭
    Genuine MS software...

    I wondered about that. I have a Carson City Morgan that I suspect has been cleaned, and I'm mulling whether it's better to send it in and get it as a "genuine" or try to circulate out that polishing. It's already a little circulated, so I won't be giving up any MS60-something grading.
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  • centmastercentmaster Posts: 504 ✭
    Remember that a lot of AU coins were cleaned in order to disguise the fact that they are AU. These would be the candidates for the pocket. Just knock them down to AU50 or ChXF and get most signs of the cleaning gone.
  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    won't get bb'd now - genuine slab


    in all seriousness, it depends on the severity of the problem



    I had a set I bought that had polished Barber halves in good


    I carried in pocket for months

    finally through in sand/gravel in tumbler


    was crap when started and was still crap when I ended (but the polish was gone)
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