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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tie.dye.cat, post: 4585506, member: 152&quot;]I am going through my parents&#039; and grandparents&#039; hoard of coins from at least as far back as the 1800&#039;s.&nbsp; Coins absolutely give me a headache; I hate going through them. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a group of steel pennies from about 1943.&nbsp; I have a grouping with mint marks and this group without mint marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question is the super shiny one.&nbsp; How can you tell (or how can a buyer tell) whether the coin is just that unused or whether it&#039;s been cleaned?&nbsp; That is without taking it to a professional grader.</p><p><br /></p><p>I 100% believe that the coin came this way to my parents/grandparents because while they loved to collect little hoards of coins that they thought might one day be valuable, I don&#039;t think they ever would have gone to the trouble of cleaning said coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; Sorry for the picture quality.&nbsp; In an effort to minimalize my lifestyle, I threw away a lot of my picture taking helpers which I now greatly regret.&nbsp; C&#039;est la vie.&nbsp; Time to look up some home made light diffusers or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407587[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407588[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407589[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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