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Toned Quarter Lovers: Textile or Fingerprint

Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
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A bag toned quarter. You can see the black outline of a crescent across the eagle's right wing where another coin was laying on top of it.
Below the eagle's left wing-is that from the bag or a finger?
Please explain the toning on this strange quarter. All comments appreciated of course!



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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Beautiful quarter. I think it's textile. The lines are too straight and the angles are 90 degrees. Too perfect for a fingerprint, I think.
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  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Dog97:

    In as much as I would've loved to have returned one of your "that's a fat greasy thumbprint" remark just once! image I have to say that this looks like a pretty good example of bag toning. It's hard to say on a small coin like this, but the toning marks on the reverse look too parallel to be anything but textile marks. The coloration also matches what one would expect from a bag toned piece, so - alas - I'll have to wait to be a smarta$$ until another day image

    Frank
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    I'll take it!image
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  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the toning, I'd go with textile and I'd like it even if it was a fingerprint image.
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  • MtManMtMan Posts: 47
    I'm not a toning expert but I know a bit about fabrics and I would say that the pattern looks like a plain weave and not a fingerprint.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    i nedd to see this coin in person but just from the scan my guesstimate is original bag toning with thawt mark from a textuile bag!

    sincerely michael
  • MorganluverMorganluver Posts: 517 ✭✭✭
    I would have to agree, looks like textile to me.
  • quarterjackquarterjack Posts: 553
    Dog, looks to me like textile or cloth imprint. Is it for sale????????? image

    Dave
    Love those toned Washingtons
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Not for sale. image
    I posted it here a long time ago but since we have a lot of new members since then I figured I would do it again, I think a few folks said fingerprint last time. I'm leaning toward textile myself but I don't have a lot of experience in bag toned quarters, right? Does anybody?The mint bags 1963 quarters came in must be different than the mint bags that Morgans came in 120 years ago because the cloth pattern is clearly a tighter and finer pattern that what you see on Morgans.
    Also pointed out to me that is a rare double sided bag toned coin. That meaning another coin laying on top of it created the crescent and sometime later the bag was moved disturbing the coins allowing the white protected area to come in contact with the bag, or a similiar chain of events.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll pretend I have bag toning experience if you send it to me image

    I vote for bag because, as it has been said, the lines are too perfect to be a fingerprint.

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