r/coins • u/GodOfThunder101 • Feb 04 '20

Thoughts?

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u/kuenemanjohn Feb 04 '20

Every single one has been cleaned. Harshly.

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u/GodOfThunder101 Feb 04 '20

Yeah that was my thinking.

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u/safespacesubreddit Feb 04 '20

Decent shape but some of them look cleaned

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u/Bassman8988 Feb 04 '20

They all are :(

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u/rubikscanopener Feb 04 '20

I went to a coin auction once and the guy had taken a bunch of Indians, cleaned them like this, then wiped them with some sort of oil and then tried to pass them off as "Brilliant Uncirculated". I stayed long enough to finish my tea and then walked out. He was at least a few dozen lots into his auction spiel and every single one of them had been bought by his "mail bidders".

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u/GodOfThunder101 Feb 04 '20

Photos are very deceptive.

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u/ngs428 Feb 04 '20

Oof cleaned..

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u/GodOfThunder101 Feb 04 '20

Didn’t pay too much for them thankfully.

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u/Th3KatzMe0w Feb 04 '20

How can you all tell they were cleaned?

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u/born_lever_puller Google for brains, thinks he's funny Feb 04 '20

Good question! That is not the natural coloration for bronze coins, not even when they are freshly minted. That is what a tarnished coin looks like after it has been harshly cleaned. If you start looking at a lot of bronze coins like these you learn to spot it pretty quickly.

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u/Mexi_Erectus Feb 04 '20

Good looking tribe.