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.
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.
<< <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).
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.
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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
D-I-P-P-I-N-G
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.
<< <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.
Whats after red? Why do some turn black?
<< <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).