Well this was not what I was hoping for nor expecting to have done as I returned back to looking for coins to purchase online so that I could add them to my own personal collection. In fact, there's some super highs and some super lows.
I shall explain.
I noticed that in one of my cent folders that I was actually really close to completing an entire page or panel by filling it up with all the necessary cents to place into the collection.
I decided that I would go online and buy these missing coins all at once.
I shall explain.
I noticed that in one of my cent folders that I was actually really close to completing an entire page or panel by filling it up with all the necessary cents to place into the collection.
I decided that I would go online and buy these missing coins all at once.
In doing so, I found an eBay seller that had offered a "discount" if the purchase included five items. The coins that I actually NEEDED to complete the panel were only FOUR so in order to get the discounted price on the coins, I needed to purchase just one more coin.
Then on the 13th of July these five coins came in the mail and when I finally got the package opened to where I can get to the coins themselves and actually put them securely into the books.
The fifth and extra coin was a 1920 Lincoln Wheat Cent. And I kept thinking that something was weird about it.
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The packaging was sealed up super tight in such a bizarre manner that I ended up having to cut the coins away from the tape and whatever else was there keeping the coins in place inside of whatever this letter-sized envelope it was mailed in. It was frustrating to deal with, however in the end I got all of the coins free and then placed them all in their spaces in the books of the collection.
The 1920 was way too shiny and bright for it being almost 100 years old and circulated. I investigated this coin and eventually I would discover: THIS COIN HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CLEANED. Meaning I have no idea what someone did to the coin specifically to make it bright and shiny as it is, but it definitely is something done that they tell numismatics NEVER TO DO TO YOUR COINS because it ruins the condition in which the coin is originally in and makes things WORSE!
All in all, this was the worst thing to do. Now I am going to have to keep an eye open for another 1920 Lincoln Wheat cent.
And the discount? It wasn't much at all. It didn't make a freaking dent in the total cost. And I ended up selecting something that is cleaned and therefore... a garbage item.
More lessons have been learned.
Stay tuned to this blog as the next coin comes in, which will be a 19th Century Indian Head cent from a much later year.
The 1920 was way too shiny and bright for it being almost 100 years old and circulated. I investigated this coin and eventually I would discover: THIS COIN HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CLEANED. Meaning I have no idea what someone did to the coin specifically to make it bright and shiny as it is, but it definitely is something done that they tell numismatics NEVER TO DO TO YOUR COINS because it ruins the condition in which the coin is originally in and makes things WORSE!
All in all, this was the worst thing to do. Now I am going to have to keep an eye open for another 1920 Lincoln Wheat cent.
And the discount? It wasn't much at all. It didn't make a freaking dent in the total cost. And I ended up selecting something that is cleaned and therefore... a garbage item.
More lessons have been learned.
Stay tuned to this blog as the next coin comes in, which will be a 19th Century Indian Head cent from a much later year.
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