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Is this tissue toning on a morgan?

beepbeep Posts: 968
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She's ok.

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Terrible picture, but I'd have to guess it's bag toning.
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  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    Hiya Jeremy, The thing is this coin looks cool in hand despite the picsimage
  • kyleknapkyleknap Posts: 980
    No doubt bag toning and I bet it is much brighter (green/purple?) in hand.

    Kyle
  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    Greens, orange and magenta I'd say. It's fiery looking...
  • JSssonJSsson Posts: 891 ✭
    What exactly is tissue toning?
  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    Curtesy of the pcgs lingo guide:
    "tissue toning
    Color, often vibrant, acquired by coins stored in original Mint paper. Originally, this was fairly heavy paper; later, very delicate tissue. Sometime during the nineteenth century, the Mint began wrapping Proof coins, and occasionally business strikes, in this paper. The paper contained sulfur; as a result, the coins stored in it for long periods of time acquired blues, reds, yellows, and other attractive colors".

    My coin must have spent a long time in a bagimage

    Brian

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