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Toned Three Cent Silvers

rwheelrwheel Posts: 28 ✭✭✭
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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In auction catalogues.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,598 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Type I Silver Three Cent Pieces tend to get ugly spots when they are in Mint State. The reason for this, I believe, is due the fact that they are 75% silver and 25% copper. In 1854 the alloy was changed to 90% silver and 10% copper, like the rest of the U.S. silver coinage. Nicely toned Type I trimes are much harder to find than the Type II and III designs.

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  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I almost had a chance at one but did not jump fast enough I like these. One day I will get one.

  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭✭

    I have not seen many of these in person, but from the pictures on this thread they appear rather beautiful.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Being so tiny it is easy for them to hide. They were also easy to lose.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, nice !!! :)

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  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    @KellenCoin said:
    I have not seen many of these in person, but from the pictures on this thread they appear rather beautiful.

    Think of something that is a lot smaller and thinner than a dime. For that reason, a lot of collectors don't like them.

    Here is the only colorful one I have, a Proof 1867. The colors are livelier in person.


    Here is a high grade 1852.


    Sorry, I meant toned three cent silvers, not three cent silvers in general.

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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the High Relief Private Collection

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,470 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I picked this one up 12 years ago and don't have any intention of letting it go. It does need a new photo, though...


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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I absolutely love this coin series. An almost perfect balance of design elements that talk to me. I need to read about the birth of this coin. Anyone know where the best history on the trime is? Peace Roy

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the design on these little coins... Though I have not collected them.... Tiny coins are not my area of interest...Well, except for Mercury dimes... ;) Cheers, RickO

  • RABRAB Posts: 135 ✭✭✭✭

    Here’s mine...

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    Roseanne Barrett - CAC Basic Seated Liberty Type Set, Circulation Strikes

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,470 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @airplanenut said:
    I picked this one up 12 years ago and don't have any intention of letting it go. It does need a new photo, though...


    You have a really nicely toned RPD FS-301!

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  • rwheelrwheel Posts: 28 ✭✭✭

    Wow-these really look great

  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oih82w8 said:
    You have a really nicely toned RPD FS-301!

    As someone who knows next to nothing about varieties (usually I just hope they don't price me out of a coin), I'll ask one simple question: does this make the coin worth more?

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 9, 2018 11:40AM

    PCGS Trends Value has a slight increase for the variety. I looked up AU58, which I have in my Type Set, and there is a posted $50 increase for the variety. It really depends on the buyer, whether or not they want to pony up for the variety.

    http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/38579

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  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not dramatically toned but still has a good look to it.suckers are hard to photo though

  • NicNic Posts: 3,400 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Trimes can tone spectacularly!

    I fondly remember how RYK loved them.

    Where did the OP go?


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