Is this a doctored coin?

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• UtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 3:26AM

  Maybe..
  My first impression is that the coin probably has nicer color than what is shown. However, whatever that "splash" is, sure makes it ugly.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 3:29AM

  I'd call it more of an "ugly coin."
  
  If it really looks like that in person, I can't believe that it looked like that when PCGS slabbed more than a decade ago. (It's in a green label holder.) I would have thought that it would have been BB'd for environmental damge.

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• AMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 3:31AM

  Doctored, No. Fugly, yes. Looks like a coin that could be a buy-back candidate. Not sure they would want such a thing in one of their holders.

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• kurtdog Posts: 1,456

  January 25, 2011 3:52AM

  Yes, that's holder wear from a doctored coin. It typically appears on the obverse side, because that's the up-side, and, as such, it's the side that's exposed to the greater light, which, of course, as most experts would concede, is the determining factor.
  
  OK, tongue back out of cheek. Really, I'm just a coin collector, I'm not a detective...

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• saintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 4:56AM

  It looks like it was dipped and then not properly rinsed.

  

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• WoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 4:58AM

  Described correctly as a "MONSTER"
  
  : something monstrous; especially : a person/coin of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty
  

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• Hawgstick Posts: 240 ✭✭

  January 25, 2011 4:59AM

  HMM, Thanks for the replies. Trying to learn a little here and it looked to me like putty on the coin, hard to tell from pic. Needless to say I wouldn't buy it anyways!

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• coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 5:00AM

  
  
  << <i>It looks like it was dipped and then not properly rinsed. >>
  
  The toning on the other areas of the coin does not look as if it is the result of re-toning after a dipping. So my guess is that that area is not the result of dipping.

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• BaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 5:00AM

  She has bad breath and it is drifting as a cloud around her.

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• WTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 5:09AM

  Not doctored.

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• kenmitch Posts: 212

  January 25, 2011 6:32AM

  Wow....Makes you wonder if ricko will click the link and puke on his computer when the image pops up

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• habaraca Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 8:26AM

  If not,,,,,, sure looks like she needs a Doctor

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 9:22AM

  Butt ugly!!

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 9:51AM

  Looks like cat puke.

  
  
  

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• Flatwoods Posts: 4,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 11:13AM

  It's interesting. The only explanation I can come up with is that someone spilled Jeweluster on it after it toned, removing the toning in that area.
  If that is the case though I'm surprised it holdered.

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• lkeigwin Posts: 16,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 11:18AM

  Ugh. Put a cigarette in Liberty's mouth and it might look natural.
  
  That coin should be returned to PCGS. I doubt he'll get $140 from them, though.
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• GrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭

  January 25, 2011 11:34AM

  In his description it's like he ignored that huge thing.
  

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