Dont you Hate when you see a large cent destroyed by a cleaning

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goldrealmoney79
goldrealmoney79 Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
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This one pained me very much, you stripped the whole gosh darn patina and its an unnatural pink for a coin from 1797. Otherwise, the meat on this coin is very good, but the cleaning just kills it.
I think the fact that they're so old is what gets me to throw a fit every darn time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1797-Philadelphia-Mint-Copper-Draped-Bust-Large-Cent-/353126110070?hash=item5237f4d376%3Ag%3AgvwAAOSwkfle%7ETZn&nma=true&si=UoKUBg4Pmohm%252FYJMsKcYqihXIz0%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's really bad!

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Can it be retoned?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • oldabeintx
    oldabeintx Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Seems to me the seller should have commented but I note their huge volume. Someone will likely retone it. I've bought some very scarce 18th century unc medals that were obviously cleaned and managed to make them look fairly decent in the set. They will be replaced if ever I find originals.

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I assume they would use something like Deller's Darkener which is essentially petroleum jelly mixed with liver of sulfur. It would certainly improve the appearance of this coin. I'm not sure how natural it would look though.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Aotearoa
    Aotearoa Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That seller is infamous for their pink copper.

    Smitten with DBLCs.

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How sad 😦

  • SaorAlba
    SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Back in the 1980s there was a dealer in Northern California that did the show circuit with coins just like that. He was the scourge of the show.

  • No Headlights
    No Headlights Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I agree. Or any other coin. In many instances a coin that has been retoned is not attractive. I don’t like that orange color coming in from the rims on silver

  • BryceM
    BryceM Posts: 11,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Well, they can’t all be nice. In fact, very few of them are. That’s what makes the really good ones so special.

    As bad as this one is, it’s possible it was even worse before.

  • Testoon
    Testoon Posts: 174 ✭✭✭
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    @PerryHall said:
    I assume they would use something like Deller's Darkener which is essentially petroleum jelly mixed with liver of sulfur.

    I didn’t even know sulfur had a liver!

    Bill
    witty quote goes here
  • Coin Finder
    Coin Finder Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I do, I do hate it when i see it. The only solace I have is that becasue these coins are so old they may have been cleaned in the 1800's!

    The court jester does not play, but gently pulls the strings…

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Well, it certainly is not attractive for copper.... I do think it could be improved (as noted above)...Just a shame that someone would do that to such a nice old copper coin. Cheers, RickO

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