Detecting Puttied Coins?

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• savoyspecial Posts: 7,356 ✭✭✭✭

  March 2, 2008 11:22AM

  makes sense
  
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• direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭

  March 2, 2008 11:24AM

  From what I remember of some photos posted last year, PCGS has a few black lights in their grading lab. Pretty sure someone at the time said that they were probably used for detecting puttied coins.
  

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• COALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭

  March 2, 2008 11:26AM

  Could you explain what a puttied coin is ?
  Do they use silver paste to fill dents or retool detail?

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• elwood Posts: 2,414 ✭

  March 2, 2008 11:29AM

  
  
  
  
  << <i>Could you explain what a puttied coin is ? >>
  
  
  
  
  It's usually applied to gold coins to fill in and smooth over problem areas on the coin. I assume it is them colored
  in a fashion that matches the rest of the coins color.
  
  

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• prenum Posts: 254

  March 2, 2008 2:20PM

  No, not detectable with a black light. Also putty is not colored after application.
  
  Can be detected only by feel or smell when first applied. btw, hand lotion has also been used for the same purpose (fill in scrapes, scratches, etc)
  
  after a couple of years putty turns a creamy white and is easily spotted. acetone removes it completely.
  
  the people who putty coins are obviously trying to make money by deceiving others. I think there's a name for that.
  
  

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• PQMorgans Posts: 727 ✭

  March 2, 2008 2:23PM

  interested info ...Thanks

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 6:04AM

  This one looks puttied and turned to me.

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• MikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 6:09AM

  
  
  << <i>In Indian Artifact collecting they use black lights to see if an artifact has been repaired.
  
  Would a black light reveal if a coin has been puttied? >>
  
  
  
  I can't speak for all putty, but the single puttied example in my collection does show quite well under blacklight.

  Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 7:37AM

  Not every foreign substance will fluoresce under a black light. But if it does, you know for sure that something foreign is on the coin.
  
  Black lights are great for picking up on refinishing jobs and the like on furniture.
  

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• TomB Posts: 22,933 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 7:45AM

  Black light will make visible fluorescent or phosphorescent components of putty, but I do not know that all putties contain such compounds.

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• AUandAG Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 7:47AM

  
  
  << <i>Not every foreign substance will fluoresce under a black light. But if it does, you know for sure that something foreign is on the coin.
  
  Black lights are great for picking up on refinishing jobs and the like on furniture. >>
  
  
  
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• Bear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 8:04AM

  Why would one want to catch scorpions?

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  December 29, 2009 8:06AM

  
  
  << <i>Why would one want to catch scorpions? >>
  
  
  
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• scoobydeux Posts: 498 ✭✭

  December 29, 2009 8:40AM

  
  
  << <i>This one looks puttied and turned to me. >>
  
  
  
  I thought she was just wearing make up.

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• OnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 4, 2010 9:16AM

  
  Could this one be puttied? Obverse fields look odd.
  
  
  
  

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• sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭

  January 4, 2010 9:27AM

  I thought putty was on higher MS coins - but do not know how luster would not be impaired
  
  
  but can see how a small scratch or graffiti could be filled in a lower grade coin
  
  
  
  
  florescent lights are shined through stamps to detect paper repairs/creases

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  January 4, 2010 9:28AM

  Could very well be. A whitish haze.
  
  I figure that the folks that putty expensive coins will practice on cheap ones first. Thus you will see many coins affected, both cheap and expensive.
  

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