Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
Ugh, one of the most ugly toned franklins I have ever seen. Just a personal opinion. Almost looks like iron oxide but I don't think it can be on silver.
the Tornado theory....hmmmm I thought of it, but then I had a moment of clarity and remembered that most tornados go from the South to the North and this one seems to be in different direction.
Family, kids, coins, sports (playing not watching), jet skiing, wakeboarding, Big Air....no one ever got hurt in the air....its the sudden stop that hurts. I hate Hurricane Sandy. I hate FEMA and i hate the blasted insurance companies.
-even though it is blue toned like many mint set 1955s, it is rare to find one with such smooth uninterrupted and even light blue toning
- looks like it has alot of luster coming through, atypical for a mint set coin, and more typical of a roll coin placed in a toning environment
-mint set coins have heavier toning towards the rims. Even though this coin looks lighter in the center of the obverse, it could actually be heavier toned. The whiter area in the center looks like silver toning. In the progression of thin film interference, a coin can tone from darker blue, to lighter blue, then to silver. That might be what is going on with this coin, indicating that the toning source was nearer the center of the coin, and not around the rims like you would find with a mint set coin.
Just my guess.
Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
It could be mint set toning - but I haven't seen any with color that deep.
I wonder if it came out of an old Bigelow holder. They were sold in the mid '50's. Made of cardboard with punched holes for the coins and plastic slides to protect them. (Kind of like some of the coin albums). I have seen a number of proofs with this type of toning from the Bigelow holders. (Sorry I don't have the link to my pic handy at the moment.)
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I don't think that it is mint set toned:
-even though it is blue toned like many mint set 1955s, it is rare to find one with such smooth uninterrupted and even light blue toning
- looks like it has alot of luster coming through, atypical for a mint set coin, and more typical of a roll coin placed in a toning environment
-mint set coins have heavier toning towards the rims. Even though this coin looks lighter in the center of the obverse, it could actually be heavier toned. The whiter area in the center looks like silver toning. In the progression of thin film interference, a coin can tone from darker blue, to lighter blue, then to silver. That might be what is going on with this coin, indicating that the toning source was nearer the center of the coin, and not around the rims like you would find with a mint set coin.
Just my guess.
I wonder if it came out of an old Bigelow holder. They were sold in the mid '50's. Made of cardboard with punched holes for the coins and plastic slides to protect them. (Kind of like some of the coin albums). I have seen a number of proofs with this type of toning from the Bigelow holders. (Sorry I don't have the link to my pic handy at the moment.)
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
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