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How do pieces/patches of dirt get into coins?

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭✭
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It seems like plenty of older U.S. coins have pieces of dirt between the lettering or inside the shield. How does it get there? It's not like people bring these outside and play in the dirt...

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ever see a working mans' hands?

    Hmmmmm,
    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Its placed there by dirt doctors trying to pass the coin off as originalimage I think AUandAG has it right, in general, clothes, hands, etc were not cleaned as frequently back then. My great-grandparents had 15 children, I can only imagine what their house looked (and smelled!) like.
    Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it is "antique" "vintage" dirt that "came from an estate" of the "grandfather" of "someone who knows nothing about coins" but wants you to "LQQK" at them! imageimageimage

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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