35+ years in a Whitman album results in rainbow toned Silver Jeffersons: could you determine if they

SanctionII

just by looking at the coins, raw, in hand?

I have two such coins, both MS 1943D FS Jeffersons that I was given as a kid and put in Whitmans.

35+ years later they have toned in to die for rainbow colors (purple, orange, blue, etc.). I know they are NT (unless you consider my putting them in albums when I was a kid when I knew nothing about toning to be enough "intent" to require an AT label).

However, if you saw them today, raw, in hand without any knowledge of their history, could you determine if they are NT or AT? If so, what factors can you point to that enables you to make your determination?

notwilight

I've been posting all day that from a scientific standpoint, nobody can ever tell for sure.

Some guys/gals have looked at a lot of coins and make educated guesses...and these guesses become gospel if the opinion comes from someone with enough respect.

It would have been very fun to send the explanation ahead of time to a trusted third party here on the board and then post pictures to see what answers you got.

--jerry

Craton

If you see enough album toned coins, you get a feel for what they look like ..........

mirabela

Here's the thing -- it doesn't matter if it is real or not. If it looks so much like the real thing that it might as well be, well, fine! BUT -- lots of AT'd coins don't. I'm not saying there aren't doctors who can make it look like 35 or 85 or 155 years of album or envelope toning, but one does see a lot of highly unnatural looking crap that does not look remotely like anything you'll ever see in a long-time multigenerational collection.

So -- in answer to your question, without looking at your coins I don't know, but I would have to imagine they look pretty plausible since they actually happened, and I have seen lots of coins myself that have sat in one environment for many decades and turned all kinds of pretty. So, they would probably pass. Make sense?

JJM

I have a feeling that they look very indicative of album toned coins, and if i had them in hand my guess would be NT

any pics???????????

ABC123

Probably AT !