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This Morgan dollar look cleaned?:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1894-S-MORGAN-S ... 4173f35d5e

I have a few Morgans that have been cleaned. Wondering if their numi value may be nil now.

Its tough to tell from the pictures. But, yes from what I understand, cleaning a coin wil take most (if not all) of its nuimismatic value.

Destroys all Numi-value

The only times a clean coin will have any numi-value are the Carson City or key dates. If these coins are cleaned they will have value, but only fraction of uncleaned coins

the first rule of cleaning coins: never clean, or polish, or shine, or anything like that to a coin!

a cleaned key date that would grade MS-63 would be worth less then the same date in VG-8.

stlouiscoin wrote:the first rule of cleaning coins: never clean, or polish, or shine, or anything like that to a coin!

a cleaned key date that would grade MS-63 would be worth less then the same date in VG-8.

Good to know.

It has been a while since I bought any ~~~ but I always am willing to pay melt for cleaned silver dollars! You bet!

I see this one sold for $41.00 That goes to show there is still big demand for the shiny stuff no matter what spot price is doing.

Here's an interesting article about determining whether a Morgan has been cleaned -- http://coins.about.com/od/caringforcoins/f/shiny_coins.htm

It's all about the magic cartwheel, I just learned. Also some good articles are found on this site by searching for 'cartwheel'.

I'd definitely pay more per ounce for cleaned Morgans than fractional 90%. But yeah most of it's value will be gone.