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Safe Deposit Box Removes Toning! Details at 11

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Uh, sure. That can happen. image In any case, looks like a nice coin.
  • LAWMANLAWMAN Posts: 1,274 ✭✭
    "has faded, do to the dry conditiona of the vault. There remains only a hint of the blue toning, yet there is still some gold arount the rim."

    The seller can't spell worth a damn either.

    Arount and arount I go, do to the force of gravity.

    That would be the first case of toning I ever heard of which faded due to the dry condition of the vault or any other reason other than

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  • isnt that kinda like something un-rusting itself ?
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  • Rob790Rob790 Posts: 547
    After blue toning is silver toning, so the toning has just progressed to the next stage. After that it will turn a yellow then reddish color. Nothing unusual about this, the toning has not just disappeared just continued toning in the safety deposit box.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually not a bad looking coin at all. Looks like a 63/64 coin with only the weak strike being the only real negative for the coin. Nice luster as indeed original.

    The blue the seller remembers may be due to faed memory or it has progressed toning wise to the golden color etc. just like Rob790 indicated.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536


    << <i>or it has progressed toning wise to the golden color etc >>


    Not possible since the gold toning forms first and then proceeds to blue as the toning layer thickens.
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    So when a coin tones over time it goes gold-blue-silver-yellow-red?
    Whats after red? Why do some turn black?
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    Actually, I like the look of that coin.

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  • Rob790Rob790 Posts: 547


    << <i>So when a coin tones over time it goes gold-blue-silver-yellow-red?
    Whats after red? Why do some turn black? >>



    Ok, here is a brief description of the color progression as the film grows thicker:

    Yellow - Burgandy - Dark Blue - Lite Blue - Silver - Yellow - Red - Blue - Green - Yellow - Red - Green ....

    Now, the colors <Yellow - Red - Green> keep repeating with more and more grey after each repeat until it turns black because now the film no longer shows an interference effect but the inherent color of the oxide (being black).
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Despite the guy's goofy explanation...I think the coin look great! So much Barber stuff is dull and crappy. I'd buy it in a sec if I had the $$$ to spare.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I gotta go check my coins since I live in the dessert where it be dry here to.
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