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Opinions on this Half Cent, please...

ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The coin is a much darker brown in hand,
your thoughts, please...

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~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
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    StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭✭

    Seems to be a fair amount of unevenness about the surfaces on the obverse - porosity, perhaps? And I'm afraid that I detect the beginning of some corrosion at 6:00 near the rim on the reverse.

    I suspect that this is one of those coins that looks better in hand than blown up this large.

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Corroded and chemically cleaned.
    All glory is fleeting.
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    zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825 ✭
    Cleaned and retoned.

    VG maybe F obverse, VF reverse.

    Too bad, I'm actually trying to buy one of these in MS64 or MS65 right now. Tough to find.
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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    There is definitely something going on with the obverse on this coin.
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
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    LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Smoothed or puttied obverse, some pitting. I cannot in good faith give that coin a grade, and I certainly cannot offer you a sticker. image
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    AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭
    I still like it. So are we entered in your giveaway? image
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    CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Corroded and cleaned. It has a very unnatural color. I'd pass on it.

    Jim
    Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
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    ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Forgive my french, but my photo skills for lack of a better word, suck...
    Again the coin is much darker in hand, learned a good lesson today.
    Thanks for your replies...

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    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
    Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
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    leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Corroded and chemically cleaned. >>



    Wouldn't such a coin appear more orange, the color of copper? Dark red-brown copper has always been difficult to photograph. The picture is more flooded with light than photoshop contrast.


    Leo

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    check the edge of the coin
    if it has a seam, its a cast copy, or could be an electrotype counterfiet with that edge seam
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    morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    THIS HALF CENT IS VERY LIKELY TO BE COUNTERFIET!!!!!!!image
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