POLL: Wild rainbow 1964 Lincoln, natural or artificial toning?

Russ

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What do you guys and gals think? Real, or cooked?

Russ, NCNE

fcloud

Don't know but I'd guess cooked.

ksteelheader

That one looks cooked....Ken

kamehameha00

AT

ClausUrch

Pure Sassparilly, Hombre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

paigowjohnny

#4..I have no idea but damn it's gaudy !!

MadMarty

It's the real thing! Seem a few like that myself! God awful FUGLY, but not AT at all.

clackamas

Its the real deal folks. If you go through enough rolls you will find these. They actually are fairly common.

shylock

paintballed and jiffy-popped, then Dan gamma rayed it

cherrypickincoin

I agree entirely. That is genuine toning.

K6AZ

I'm no copper expert, but that coin sure looks like it came out of aswimmer's kitchen!

coincop

I have to agree with clack....I sit and open rolls while at the bank and have run across A LOT of purple Lincolns. Some even more purple than this one and more evenly toned making them quite nice to look at.

Russ

The toning is the real deal. By the accepted definition of occuring over a long period of time with no deliberateness of intent, the toning on that cent is natural and genuine, not artificial.

Anybody who has purchased enough of this type of mint set has seen this type of toning before:



They have a velvet flocked cardboard insert that can sometimes produce some wild toning on the coins. Here are some more of the coins that came from the same set as the Lincoln:







The Lincolns tend to tone the weirdest, but the dimes can also sometimes also be pretty strange. The quarters tend to tone the least. The nickels and halves in between.

Russ, NCNE

mbbiker

Very nice looking coins, is the dime for sale?

millennium

I vote cooked a cooked cent...