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Circulation wear on Ike or "enhanced"?
Davideo
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So unfortunately I don't have the best pics, but what are your opinions of this Ike dollar. My thought was that the wear seemed unnatural like someone took it to a belt sander or something. I don't really see worn Eisenhower's so I wanted to check. Thoughts?
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The beveled edges are the 'tell'.
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The beveled edges are the 'tell'. >>
No, I don't think so.
I have a rock tumbler. I used it once to "circulate" some new tokens I just minted.
They come out all beat to hell - like they spent a year in a most violent casino.
Smooth wear like that doesn't come from a rock tumbler, in my experience.
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<< <i>Doesn't look like any circulation wear I've ever seen. >>
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<< <i>Rock tumbler.
The beveled edges are the 'tell'. >>
No, I don't think so.
I have a rock tumbler. I used it once to "circulate" some new tokens I just minted.
They come out all beat to hell - like they spent a year in a most violent casino.
Smooth wear like that doesn't come from a rock tumbler, in my experience. >>
I've had this exact experience with a rock tumbler. The Ikes and various coins tumble and spin in the device and cause them to rub up against the hard rubber inside- wearing the coin as seen
with the OP's Ike. The 'dirty' surfaces are also caused, I speculate by the coin dust that accumulates within the cylinder.
The OP's Ike is looks exactly like the Ikes I practiced with in a rock tumbler, and based on my first hand experience, made the post and response I did.
Perhaps Daniel's 'mistake' was adding too many coins within the tumbler. I would place only one, sometimes two or three, in at at time so as not to get those thousands of micro hits that otherwise occur.
I also experimented with placing various polishing agents and forgetting exactly which one, also caused the dirty surfaces seen in the Ike shown above.
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There are the more professional, expensive tumblers that vibrate up and down that I suppose with the right materials placed with the coin would give a more authentic wear pattern.
I just never got that committed to experimenting to want to try that out.
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<< <i>Rock tumbler.
The beveled edges are the 'tell'. >>
No, I don't think so.
I have a rock tumbler. I used it once to "circulate" some new tokens I just minted.
They come out all beat to hell - like they spent a year in a most violent casino.
Smooth wear like that doesn't come from a rock tumbler, in my experience. >>
Mine either. Before wear like that can occur the rims need to go bye bye. For the OP's coin, I would have expected more wear on the reverse but until I could see the coin in hand, I really do not know for sure.
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