Is cresent [half moon] toning most often natural?

barberlover

I don't have a way o post a pic. so best i can do is offer a description; seated quarter p.c.g.s. 66, cresent blue around the date and part of the right periphery the blue is almost a neon blue and the luster is full and blazing under the cresent toning. How does cresent toning happen? barberlover

michael

yes it is usually natursal but i have to see the coin in person sight seen to be sure!!

i call it an arc of toning

and how this happens more often than not is when a coin is pushed into an album even the older wayte raymond albums or whatever albums of long ago the coins were a tight fit!

and when the coin is pucsed in at an angle where the coin is tilted then it sometimes tones this way depending on the conditions and/or storage and when it was taken out of the album

also if the coin has been dipped and if put like this at an angle in the album tilted in the album hole
then it wioll tone fastewr and get totally different colors/look then an original coin with its original skin when put into the album
of course the original coin is much better and rarer and the original coin will develop more of a rainbow with a certian look to it AND THE surfaces thick skinned surfaces where the coin is not tonewd

if you showed me this coin in peraon maycbe i could tell you better

some are easier to tell and see for sure than others

sincerely michael

michael

and here is an example of this toning arc by putting in a coin in an album tilted

sincerely michael

prooflike

Is that how this morgan got it's crescents?

DesertLizard

Dumb question:

Why do I so often see a coin toned on the obverse but not the reverse?

michael

yes i think so this 1900 from my guesstimate from the scan got it from being in an album and slighlty tilted also the toning is secondary meaning this coin was dipped white before being put into the album

i would love to see this coin in person!!

look good!!!!


i have seen many coins like you say toned on one side really deeply toned and then basically untoned on the other side!

i am guessing that most probably the toned surface lay somewhere on a piece of cloth or something with sulfur on it or some element that toned the coin and the white side was protected by somekind of neutral inert material?? for me not an album toned coin

sincerely michael

dorkkarl

no, it is not natural. but it might be very nice & market acceptable.

can occur when two coins are stacked together, off-center from each oterh, & in the right (artificial) environment, the exposed portions of the metal tones artificially, wherease the un-exposed metal tones naturally.

K S