Has anyone seen a nicely toned 1950 Franklin? Please post yours
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Some of the early Franklin dates don't come with the monster colors of the 1956 to 1958 dates or much color at all. Has anyone seen a relatively strong 1950 toned Franklin? This is my example:
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That's really strong color for the date.
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I used to have a relatively large number of really nicely toned Franklins, but over the years they were sold off and now I only have a single piece, which is a proof. However, I never owned a 1950-P, D or S Franklin that had much color other than an array of blue and gold along the rim.
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Wow, beautiful coin. Skyman probably has something to add to this discussion.
Lovely.
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Lovely 1950 Franklin @U1chicago ! IMO the major reason you don't find many nicely toned 1950 Franklins (or indeed other silver denominations) is that there were no Mint Sets made in that year.
@TomB I'd like to hear more about this 1950 S Franklin that you were looking for.
@kaz Here's my 1950 (PCGS MS65FBL). It's got envelope toning. It was part of a deal where I was able to pick up 6 P mint Franklins with envelope toning; '50, '53, '59, '61, '62, '63.
The 1950 D (PCGS MS65FBL) was a total wing and a prayer pickup on eBay 10 - 15 years ago on a crappy set of seller's pictures. It was probably my luckiest eBay Franklin pickup, as there are so few nicely toned 1950 D Franklins out there.
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I have a pair of 1950-D's, obverse and reverse toners. The dealer I bough them from, Rick Beale (RIP) said they came from the same roll. The other sides are blast white.
And a decent 2-sided 1950-D toner:
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I think @ricko has a full set of toned Franklins
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No, now that I think about it.................it must have been someone else
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This whole time he was trying to trick us with blast white coins so that he could build up the toner set.
@U1chicago ... Zounds!!! I have been exposed!!
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I picked up this one for my half collection.
This one is pretty too:
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