Brazenly Polished Australian Pennies

Ha ha.. Been there, done that. In fact just the other day a seller on ebay had some coins that looked polished. I contacted him and asked if they had been polished. His response - "Don't know. I bought them like that." Odd thing is, he had a penny that was listed as polished. I guess he must have polished that one himself if he doesn't know how to pick a polished coin.

Re the polished pennies - pass them on as a bulk lot of cheap coins. They me be useful for a clandestine two-up school.

We've all been there!

@oz, a good lesson to learn and I think one that all of us have had at one point or another. To save you the pain of a second lesson, I'd like to recommend to you that you flatten the staples on all of your 2x2s. If you keep the staples in the as-formed shape with the loops on the back (as I did early in my collecting career), these can rub against adjoining coins in your collection and scratch them.

I polished all my old Aussie pennies and half pennies about 20 years ago, before I knew better.
Fortunately I had none of any great value.

One of them I carried in my pocket for years and played with it and it toned over nicely and went brown again. Looks good now.