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POLL: Cleaned or Not? Your Opinion Please. (big pics)

richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
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What is YOUR opinion on this coin? Has it been cleaned? or not?
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    mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,203 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tough to be sure from your pics. I'd go with 80% likely it has been cleaned. At the very least it has been dipped.
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Don't get hung up on "cleaned" (meaning "harshly cleaned"). There are posts here that make it sound like a cleaned coin should be buried in a nuclear waste repository. But if you can't tell without posting a poll, then does it really matter? The coin has some scratches but unless a coin is UNC, then it may have been exposed to all kinds of stuff in the C part of NOT UNC. scratches are normal. Parallel hairline scratches set off the "Dump it in the trash" alarm around here but shouldn't.

    I have some harshly cleaned coins that look great except under high magnification and for the price I paid I am very happy with them.

    Edited to add that since you didn't say "harshly cleaned" I'm sure some forum members are going to vote for cleaned when they really mean dipped.
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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I think it's been cleaned at some point, yes... That one has some cool die breaks on the obverse!
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    AngryTurtleAngryTurtle Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    Looks highly likely to be dipped, but I dont see much evidence of an abrasive cleaning - so I vote not cleaned ( Had to vote nice original, but I dont think its that)
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    probable cleaned and dipped but I would toss it out of my book >>>>>..........
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cleaned or not it's a pretty cool die state. image
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    NH484000NH484000 Posts: 591 ✭
    Cleaned. (guessing that because of the ANACS holder)

    Looking to buy Morgans in ACG, INS, IGA, Old PCI photo, and Hannes Tulving holders.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lightly cleaned and dipped but retoning can restore her to a more natural look especially in that AU grade.

    Cool obv. die cracks.
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    richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    The coin is in a Anacs Holder as an AU55 Details Cleaned Holder. I don't own the coin (although I admit I'm trying image).
    Cleaned or not, the coin has a great "look" to me and the obverse die cracks add a lot of character.
    Thanks for participating.
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    Rob85635Rob85635 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭
    I voted original because I didn't see signs of whizzing, I see some tan toning near the top of the obverse, so I didn't think it had been dipped. How was it cleaned? I thought dipping was ok as long as you use acetone and thoroughly rinse it. I thought no one could tell. Man I gotta lot to learn.

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    ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks dipped but MAY holder at a top 4 TPG.

    So may answer was 3, since it did not fit the other 2.
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    DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not cleaned enough to keep it out of an NGC holder, IMO.
    When in doubt, don't.
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    dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Don't get hung up on "cleaned" (meaning "harshly cleaned"). There are posts here that make it sound like a cleaned coin should be buried in a nuclear waste repository. But if you can't tell without posting a poll, then does it really matter? The coin has some scratches but unless a coin is UNC, then it may have been exposed to all kinds of stuff in the C part of NOT UNC. scratches are normal. Parallel hairline scratches set off the "Dump it in the trash" alarm around here but shouldn't.

    I have some harshly cleaned coins that look great except under high magnification and for the price I paid I am very happy with them.

    Edited to add that since you didn't say "harshly cleaned" I'm sure some forum members are going to vote for cleaned when they really mean dipped. >>




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    Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unnatural color for a 150 yr old coin. Abrasively cleaned at a bare minimum.

    Too bad; Seated halves are classic, but that one won't make it's way into my collection.

    Dave
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    combatmailmancombatmailman Posts: 670
    <<Tough to be sure from your pics. I'd go with 80% likely it has been cleaned. At the very least it has been dipped.>>

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    GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    cleaned but market acceptable

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