What is your most hated type of problem on a coin?

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relicsncoins
relicsncoins Posts: 8,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 15, 2022 3:50PM in U.S. Coin Forum

For me it's definitely whizzing or tooling. A cleaning is likely done by someone that just doesn't know any better, where is whizzing/tooling is an intentional act to deceive.

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  • bronzemat
    bronzemat Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Tooling & whizzing. I have holed coins and some cleaned ones that don't bother me. But tooling is probably the worst.

  • vplite99
    vplite99 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "Improperly cleaned" coins that look dead.

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  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Staple scratches
    Harsh cleaning

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  • Rexford
    Rexford Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Filed rims or minor mount removals, most other issues are readily apparent, but those can ruin a coin that might otherwise have fantastic surfaces. It’s always a disappointment to see on an especially nice coin.

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  • TurtleCat
    TurtleCat Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Anything that would land in a details holder is already excluded. Of those things in a regular holder the most hated problem is a particularly bad hit in the prime focal area. Right after that is a fingerprint. After that fly specs.

  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Milk spots and carbon fragment contamination trapped in a holder. Peace Roy

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  • DCW
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    Yep, rim bumps kill it for me.

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  • CoinHoarder
    CoinHoarder Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Or, real dark coins.

  • pursuitofliberty
    pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Whizzing, tooling and harsh cleaning.

    There's a place for almost everything, but those three are really tough to ignore, or find any love for.


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  • coinbuf
    coinbuf Posts: 12,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Fingerprints and lots of carbon or spots, will not buy a coin with fingerprints no matter how nice it is otherwise. Second most hated is environmentally damaged coins, occasionally I can get past the toning but it is difficult.

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  • sparky64
    sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Rim bumps and fingerprints .

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  • jayPem
    jayPem Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Counterstamps, chopmarks, engraving, holes, carving...anything I forgot?
    🤔

  • pursuitofliberty
    pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Floridafacelifter said:
    When the person who owns it won’t sell it to me!

    POTD material right there!


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  • privatecoin
    privatecoin Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Inflation by Fiat currency destroying their purchase power.

    Followed closely by environmental damage.

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  • Downtown1974
    Downtown1974 Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For me….holes or marks from ex-jewelry bezels.

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Whizzing and tooling, followed closely by fingerprints in a prime focal area and graffiti... especially on Morgan Dollars where Ms. Liberty is staring at the problem...

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  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A hole.

  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very situational.
    I’d take a chain cent or 1799 cent with most of the above mentioned problems, other than a hole or graffiti.
    For Walkers, I better not see any problems other than perhaps a light cleaning.

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  • Type2
    Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Anything green.



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  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    fingerprint

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  • sumdunce
    sumdunce Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭✭
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    Anything that you don't notice at the LCS, online, or show but shows up under the my grading lamp, that would get the coin a details grade.

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 15, 2022 10:21PM
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    Harsh cleaning/polishing

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  • Off_Cent_er
    Off_Cent_er Posts: 164 ✭✭✭✭
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    For me, I really hate the amount of small gold coins with ex mount problems.

  • Inspired70
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    @Cameonut said:
    Fingerprints.

    This!!

  • alefzero
    alefzero Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Graffiti. Yeah tooling is pretty bad and just as deliberate. But graffiti is impossible to see beyond.

  • ElmerFusterpuck
    ElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Blast white lifeless mid grade silver coins, some even in graded holders. That means they suffered some of the above listed abuses, but the coins themselves are too ashamed to talk about it.

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  • oldabeintx
    oldabeintx Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Will not buy anything holed, bent, or with distracting fingerprints or edge bumps, but deceptive alterations, such as tooling or whizzing are definitely the worst. Also, intentional damages, such as scratches that appear intentional, including "cleaned" ("wiped" proofs being an exception unless details). I own very few detains coins, but have a couple of very early coins that have small hits or cuts that appear to have occurred in use. Also, a couple early coins detailed as ED that look as good as many contemporary coins that are straight-graded. I've learned to be a bit forgiving with coins earlier than 1800.

  • ctf_error_coins
    ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I dislike any problem coin so I have none.

  • BigMoose
    BigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
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    Worst for me is a harshly cleaned or whizzed/polished coin. Most of the value is completely destroyed besides the coin looking like crap. On Large Cents, I especially hate large rim dings as they destroy the symmetry of the coin.

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  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Type2 said:
    Anything green.

    Green toning is my favorite color.
    We can agree to disagree .

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  • Barberian
    Barberian Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @jayPem said:
    Counterstamps, chopmarks, engraving, holes, carving...anything I forgot?
    🤔

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  • Mr Lindy
    Mr Lindy Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Staple Scratched.
    Own none, & have never inflicted this harm to a coin.
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  • streeter
    streeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Filed rims on pre 33 raw gold. I just quit even looking at those coins 20 years ago unless I knew the seller was above reproach.
    20-30 yrs ago, I bought several of these from significant sellers that passed them off. They knew, I learned.
    Tuition.

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  • ctf_error_coins
    ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Aotearoa said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    I dislike any problem coin so I have none.

    Oh, the irony!

    Ya, I kinda expected that response, I thank you for the laugh :)

  • CharlotteDude
    CharlotteDude Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Scrubbed/brightened gold in a straight-graded holder.

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Any coin that has spent some time in a Walmart parking lot. ;)

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  • moursund
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    Any really valuable coin that some undeserving lucky sod happened to find...

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