1834 half dollar

Baley

FC57Coins

Looks cleaned and re-toned - but it also has eye appeal.

Frank

smprfi

I like it.Looks like a VF-20 to me.Also looks like Large Date, Large Letters, Overton 101.

MadMonk

Cleaned -natuarally retoned, pretty...I like it!

dorkkarl

dude you better get the space around your desk checked for radon gas. or other kinds of gas.



K S

Baley

Radon gas?!? other gas?? must be my wife's cooking!

NumisEd

Baley, I wasn't born yesterday. There's no way that your 1834 half and your Monroe half got that kind of toning by "sitting on your desk and letting people handle it". I am not dumb. It's like my momma always says......."Ed, you are not as dumb as you look".

So how are you doing it? Match sticks in a jar? Kraft envelopes? What? Tell us!

Baley

aha, now we're talking coins!

shirohniichan

I thought we were talking about toning, not coins.

I saw a South African proof set yesterday that had each coin individually wrapped in aluminum foil. I wasn't ready to but it, so I didn't unwrap the coins to see if the foil really prevented toning. Does anyone know from experience that foil keeps coins from toning?

Baley

I don't know if the foil in and of itself would affect toning one way or another, it seems that temperature, humidity, and general handling would be the determinants. I imagine foil might be a little hard on the surface of a high grade coin, risking hairlines.

MadMonk

<< <i>Baley, I wasn't born yesterday. There's no way that your 1834 half and your Monroe half got that kind of toning by "sitting on your desk and letting people handle it". I am not dumb. It's like my momma always says......."Ed, you are not as dumb as you look".

So how are you doing it? Match sticks in a jar? Kraft envelopes? What? Tell us! >>



hey, if this isnt a jest, Sometimes that's all it takes. Happens relatively quickly as well. I once had some Franklins sitting out and they are toned beautifully, so this thread wasnt at all odd to me. Another time, I just laid a piece of paper over them and viola!

hughesm1

Lotsa sulfur in that paper? Still, nice the way it's retoned.

MadMonk

<< <i>Lotsa sulfur in that paper? Still, nice the way it's retoned. >>



I guess so. The thing is, its totally not artificial. I also made some little envelopes from hallmark envelopes, very pretty toning was the result. Now I have a slew of coins in Wayte Raymond holders...Wish me luck!

Baley

the 1834 spends some time in the brown kraft 2x2 coin envelope that is the background of the photo.

madmonk, good luck on your wayte raymonds, mine aren't doing much. What is a "hallmark envelope"?

MrKelso

I like it. Is there something going on with the date field? Doubling or anything on the 8?