That particular image looks like it could be a mint set toned coin. HOWEVER - be advised that this guy/person/whatever - is known for selling artificially toned crap, so in my book, I wouldn't buy anything from them - real or otherwise.
Colors run across fields into raised lettering with no breaks. Splotches and globs of color, not a natural blending as one would see on a coin like that with those colors. Black areas on reverse indicate to me a chemical induced toning job. He should have removed those before he called it a finished AT piece.
The seller seems to have quite a few of those coins from the same batch as well, with none of them slabbed.
"Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
I've just finished going thru 43 Canadian Cents that were stored in a Whitman punch-out album for like 40 years. This is the first time I've had that many naturally toned coins in one batch. While many of them (alas) have verdegris, many of them are absolutely spectacular. And I got the lot for two U.S. cents per coin. Here's the thing about the natural toning in that group: never does it appear evenly across the coin. It is as if Nature started in one part of the hole (where the coin was stored) and worked her way out across the coin.
I agree: this one seems artifical. Granted -- yours is silver, and I was working with a bunch of bronze, but I think that what Nature does is what Deadhorse implies: <<Colors run across fields into raised lettering with no breaks>>. I noticed also that the Canadian bronzes were not only NOT even, the various devices on each coin had a marked impact on the toning.
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Colors run across fields into raised lettering with no breaks. Splotches and globs of color, not a natural blending as one would see on a coin like that with those colors. Black areas on reverse indicate to me a chemical induced toning job. He should have removed those before he called it a finished AT piece.
The seller seems to have quite a few of those coins from the same batch as well, with none of them slabbed.
John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
I've just finished going thru 43 Canadian Cents that were stored in a Whitman punch-out album for like 40 years. This is the first time I've had that many naturally toned coins in one batch. While many of them (alas) have verdegris, many of them are absolutely spectacular. And I got the lot for two U.S. cents per coin. Here's the thing about the natural toning in that group: never does it appear evenly across the coin. It is as if Nature started in one part of the hole (where the coin was stored) and worked her way out across the coin.
I agree: this one seems artifical. Granted -- yours is silver, and I was working with a bunch of bronze, but I think that what Nature does is what Deadhorse implies: <<Colors run across fields into raised lettering with no breaks>>. I noticed also that the Canadian bronzes were not only NOT even, the various devices on each coin had a marked impact on the toning.
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<< <i>I am torn on this one....my initial thought was NT....now I think I have settled on AT over some NT toning as was previously mentioned. >>
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rainbowroosie April 1, 2003