How do You Like the Toning on this SAE?

poorguy

Do you like it? What do you think caused the little squiggles? Would you rather one like this or a nice white one?

wvinchic

To me, it looks like there was lint on it as it toned


Stacy

wjd283

I would've never thought they would've slabbed it,but I'm still learning about toning.

Dennis88

Where's the option:

"I only like the reverse"???

Dennis

mgoodm3

kinda interesting.

etexmike

I went with the very nice toning I wouldn't mind paying a little more option.

I have bid on a few of these but always seem to get sniped.

I guess I didn't want any of them bad enough just yet.

I think it is a very nice coin.

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etexmike

cosmicdebris

Please enter me in your most generous giveaway.

Jdurg

Makes me think it was lying face down on a felt surface for a while.

poorguy

Interesting results. It seems that people are sharply divided on the toning of this piece.

MajorDuty

Still trying to understand how a coin just five years old can look like that, when I've got silver coins forty years older than that, that have little to no toning to speak of. I like the reverse too. How does this happen so quickly? *me thinks it was helped along*

Smitty79

<< <i>Where's the option:

"I only like the reverse"???

Dennis >>

ccrdragon

The ASE's tend to tone very quickly because they are basically pure silver, whereas the 40+ year old coins are only 90% (or less) silver. The added metals in the older coins can make huge differences in the speed and affects of the toning.

19Lyds

Someone please educat me as I simply do not understand how a coin could tone that much in less than 5 years! All my SAE's are in a Dansco and heve been there since around 1995 and I have not seen anything that resembles that degree of toning!

So how does this happen? Slab or no slab, I don't care for the coin simply because my brain says AT! Maybe it should say INT Induced Natural Toning?

Help!

rays

The toning is beautiful and befit's the high grade assigned of MS67. I gave it "number 5".
BTW, very nice photography.

Monstavet

I don't buy the pure silver argument here....yes pure silver will tone faster than 90% silver. But that fact does not explain how 99% of ASEs remain untoned or perhaps have some of the brownish/orange toning seen on this coin's reverse, and there are a small percentage that take on this type of over-the-top toning. If this type of toning occurs so rapidly because of the silver content, then most should be toned and not the other way around.

The obverse toning pattern, while attractive, seems enhanced and I would not pay a premium for it, but I would not stip someone from spending their own money however they sit fit to do so.

The reverse of this coin looks more natural to me, and is quite attractive. I would pay extra for an ASE with toning like the reverse of this coin. THat is just me.

AgMe

Hello all,

Blue felt (obv) and tissue paper wrap (rev)? I could see the obv face down on felt (w/ lint).

SAE's and blue felt make a nice toner.

On a side note, I'll be baking some Buffalo nickels soon, I'll let you know if anything "fun" comes out. I'm also going to try high sulfur content paper (or maybe just tissue paper) w/ some moisture & "see what happens".

-g

JrGMan2004

I like the reverse much better than the obverse... but that being said... I would still pay MS69 money for it

VTCoins

I like both sides!

Bochiman

Obverse would look nicer without all that splotchiness.
Reverse is ok, but the obverse would have me pass on it (colors are ok, but not how they look all splotchy)

BigE2

Nifty! Not my style though. Maybe if it were blue. I have seen very similar toning on a couple of eagle laid on one of those red flocked coin trays you see in dealers cases. The obverse would had to have been UP for stuff to land on it like that. Can't figure the spots on the head though. Probably sat in the case for awhile with some paper with sulfer in it. IMHO

relayer

I voted #4, but it is more of a 3.5

Jdurg

A good way to test the 'pure silver' theory is to do the following. Take a newly minted 90% silver proof and a 2005 ASE. Put them in an envelope or covered in felt and place them in your bathroom for a while. Take another set of those coins and put them in a 'controlled' environment. After a few months, take them out and look at the differences in toning. By having a 0.90 and 0.999 fine silver item in both areas, you'll be able to see if it's the environment or the metal composition causing the coloring.

AgMe

<< <i>...and place them in your bathroom for a while. .... >>



Where's that pic of the seat cover when you need it...


-g

Russ

<< <i>I would've never thought they would've slabbed it,but I'm still learning about toning. >>



That one is actually pretty obviously natural toning. I've handled many very similar. Here's one I sold raw that came from a Dansco album:



The buyer submitted it to PCGS, where it graded MS67.

Russ, NCNE

Jdurg

<< <i>

<< <i>...and place them in your bathroom for a while. .... >>



Where's that pic of the seat cover when you need it...


-g >>



I'm serious. The rapid changes in temperatures and humidity, and presence of a LOT of sulfur containing gasses in a bathroom really accelerates the toning process.

poorguy

I'm serious. The rapid changes in temperatures and humidity, and presence of a LOT of sulfur containing gasses in a bathroom really accelerates the toning process.

So why not go one step further and just hide it in a mexican restaurant bathroom. In about a week there should be some pretty impressive toning going on there.

poorguy

ttt for the night crowd.

wjd283

<< <i>

<< <i>I would've never thought they would've slabbed it,but I'm still learning about toning. >>



That one is actually pretty obviously natural toning. I've handled many very similar. Here's one I sold raw that came from a Dansco album:



The buyer submitted it to PCGS, where it graded MS67.

Russ, NCNE >>




I see the similarity in toning,it was the diagonal line through the first one that made me think it was tampered with.