Big Price on Toned penny

GOLDSAINT

Another big price on a Toned penny last night.
31 times Red on this 1987 S Proof 68. Is this the trend of the future for these great looking toners?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3915874718&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

seanq

Linky

Looks more like a couple of guys got into "Have-to-have-it" mode, most of the other bids topped out far below the hammer price. Still strong interest in a coin I frankly don't find all that attractive - I think green copper makes me think 'corrosion' by default.


Sean Reynolds

Outhaul

Link-O-Matic

coppercoins

Unbelievable - both the grade and the price. Should be a PR64RB and should have sold for $5 tops.

Russ

This auction is a perfect example of the right couple of bidders coming along and driving the price. Modern toned Lincolns normally don't bring anywhere near this kind of money.

Russ, NCNE

ColonialCoinUnion

Somewhere as we speak coin alchemists are trying to figure out how to re-create that funky kelly green color -

LincolnCentMan

That's an Incredible Hulk of a cent!

David

JrGMan2004

I kinda like toned proof coins like that, that have a different color in the fields than on the devices. Kinda like Jeffs you see that have purple fields and gold devices.

Russ

<< <i>Kinda like Jeffs you see that have purple fields and gold devices. >>





Russ, NCNE

solid

That's a sweet example, Russ! Don't think I've seen that image before.

GOLDSAINT

To be honest I have been buying a few of these great toners at 2 to 3 times white, or Red,. For those that have ventured into this game lets see if your experience is the same as mine?
Of the ten I purchased, for the extended type set I am working on, only one really looked as good as the pictures. It is not that the coins did not have most of the colors that were presented but the photography and lighting for the new digital shots are really reaching for the colors. On one coin I bought that was “neon” the colors were there, but to bring them out you the photographer had to have used a defused black light, additionally most pictures you look at are blown way up. It is much harder to get a feel for these toners than it is a bright red copper or flush white silver coin.

uofa1285

I am the seller of this coin. I thought you all might like to hear how I came into owning it and its history.

The previous owner of this coin (local coin shop) told me that the person HE bought it from had stored the original proof set in MOTH BALLS! I do not know if that is true, but he really had no reason to lie since he sold me the cent at White sheet.

Anyway, I sent it to NGC, as I felt it was a solid NT in that it was not baked or chemically altered in the sense I have seen coin docs do on eBay. NGC agreed and there you have it.

Thanks

Doug

braddick

<< <i>I am the seller of this coin. I thought you all might like to hear how I came into owning it and its history. The previous owner of this coin (local coin shop) told me that the person HE bought it from had stored the original proof set in MOTH BALLS! I do not know if that is true, but he really had no reason to lie since he sold me the cent at White sheet. Anyway, I sent it to NGC, as I felt it was a solid NT in that it was not baked or chemically altered in the sense I have seen coin docs do on eBay. NGC agreed and there you have it. Thanks Doug >>

How'd he get there little legs. . . oh... nevermind...

JrGMan2004

Yup Russ... just like that...