Take a Look at This Piece

dragon

Please take a look at Ebay item # 1376497804 and tell me if you think this toning is natural and why.

Dragon

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MrLee

I'm no expert on toning but it looks real to me. A real nice rainbow.

Cam40

I guess thats the $64,000 question.I,m not sure anyone could say with certaintly one way or the other from a small scan like that.It may have been rejected by the other services as AT thus now in ICG plastic.
You,d by it and upgrade the plastic if you knew it was NT huh.Thats what we,re trying to determine here isn`t it.

dragon

No............That was not why I asked at all, that piece is not worth significantly more regardless of holder IMO. I had a far different reason for asking.

Dragon

airplanenut

Looks like a lot of other toned dollars that ended up in PCGS slabs... I would say it is real... and purdy

MrLee

<< <i>tell me if you think this toning is natural and why. >>



The subtle changing from yellow to orange, to red, then blue looks natural to me. It starts on one side and works it's way across in a rainbow pattern. The colors are not all mixed up running every which way as if splattered with a brush.

Cam40

Sorry Dragon if it sounded like I was questioning some agenda you might have.
I thought it was too common to be significant price-wise even with the toneing.
Looks like $60 worth of toneing on a $20 coin.
If AT`d its nicely done.

CarlWohlforth

I have no opinion, don't know enough about toning to have one. But I would like to learn more.

Is that a double rainbow? How do natural rainbows come to be in the first place? Is a double rainbow unusual?

ArtR

I believe it is natural tone. Hard to tell from the scan but it seems the coin has a varying color pattern as the tone reaches the denticles and reeding. There is a smooth transition of the colors, and the colors follow the natural progression for a rainbow tone dollar.

TomB

I know I'm missing something in your question but I will tell you what I think. It looks completely real, however, the scan has been lightened sufficiently so that I can't really tell you how attractive it would be in person. It ceratinly is not "INSANE" toning, in fact, it's barely above really cool and the price reflects that. The fact that it is reverse side out in an ICG holder means nothing to me as ICG is good with toning from my experience.

kyleknap

While it certainly is not "insane," I am VERY confident that the toning is real. HAs the natural mint-bag pattern, colors in the right order, and it just has that natural appearence, not to bright, colors aren't running everywhere, ect.

Kyle
www.tkcollectables.com



edited to correct error

1jester

It looks real to me. Any yes, it does look like a "double rainbow", which I've never seen before (on a coin). Perhaps the coin shifted in the bag after attaining the first tone job.

Dog97

Didn't that AT video say toning wasn't sposed to be on the rim? Looks real to me though.

shylock

I know didly about silver toning but the first thing that strikes me is the sequence of 3 colors, repeated twice. I'm curious how a coin would tone like that.

Cam40

My guess Paul would be,say you place a Morgan over this coin so the white is covered.Now ,looking straight down from above place another on top of that so it lines up with the second outer-most rainbow tone.(3 coins stacked).This may be how this coin was positioned in the canvas bag it sat in for so long.