1913 Type 1 Buffalo......toned...

JamesW

Have you ever seen this type of toning? A friend of mine wanted to show me some old coins he had after watching me dig around on the internet one morning. He went out to his truck and pulled a crown royal bag from under his seat. This buffalo was one of the coins in his bag. The look on his face made it obvious to me it didn't look this way when he put it there. I thought it was neat and managed to trade him an Eisenhower dollar for it.

What do you think on grade? It is definately circulated but looks better than my scan. I didn't have any way to photograph it.

JrGMan2004

Leather bag? I had a bunch of Copper Cents (Wheats, Canadians, along with other darkside coins) in a leather bad, and they got kinda that same orangish, brownish color... but that was pretty much on the coppers... so... hmm...

Prometheus183

Nah, not leather. Crown Royal bags are made of purple felt, gold trim and draw string.

Whatever else was in the bag, either with the coins, or sometime previously left a residue. That's my bet.

Craig

FullHorn

VF maybe, scan the reverse,rescan the obverse or not, cool crown royal bag/ truck tone, better than an Ike

mojorizn

Pretty knowledgeable about the Crown Royal method of delivery there, eh Craig?
Gotta go with the residue theory here. The felt shouldn't impart that heavy toning. Did your friend use that Crown Royal bag to store other things besides coins? (Not speaking from experience of course.)

Mojo

JamesW

The bag had maybe 75+ coins in it. Mostly Mercury dimes and wheat cents, and some casino tokens.

It also had a 1878 Quarter in the bag. I managed to get that later. It's in F - VF shape but looks like it has been cleaned. I gave him 2 well worn 22 peace dollars for it.

You could just tell when he opened the bag that he was truly supprised by the toning on them. Otherwise I wouldn't have thought a crown bag could do this.

I am now running a test under the seat of my truck.