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what causes this kind of toning?

HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
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now, the color, look weird...

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  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    Don't touch it with your bare hands. image
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    it's actually very cool in-hand, I dont care about it's origin, Im just curious on speculation.
    it was not purchased at any premium...
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  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    AH! Red X toning. Caused by a firewall.
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    I don't know, but I kinda like it. I'll bet it looks a lot more vibrant in the light.

  • mattnissmattniss Posts: 739 ✭✭✭✭
    It looks like it once survived a fire, perhaps?
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    I bet the same thing causes this type of toning as it does other type, oxidation! image
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My guess would be some type of moisture on the Obv at some point at least
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like this one might have been in someone's hand when they sneezed or coughed. Of course it could have been intentionally exposed to some kind of mist to try to alter it, but maybe not.
    Just hope it wasn't sneezed on by someone who bit the bullet in the pandemic of 1918....image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm not the most fond of toners, but that is pretty cool.
    I would attribute high humidity/condensation to be partly to blame. Maybe it sat in an attic that was uninsulated in a warm climate for twenty years. Maybe it spent another twenty years in the cold. It seems to me that it's been subject to the extremes that we are all subject to wherever there are four seasons.
    I guess it's "mottled" toning.
  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    I would guess an envelope of some type, possibly Kraft
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The potato you baked it in was too moist
  • BullishBullish Posts: 374


    << <i>The potato you baked it in was too moist >>


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  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like possible dip residue that toned.
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    I put a brilliant untoned 1881 s morgan in one of those louis n clark indian coin pouches for 1 year, and it came out looking like that. Not sure if the leather did it, or the dye used on the pouch
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    That's a pretty neat effect.

    I wonder if PCGS would slab that, someone there might know what causes that kind of toning if it is unique. If know one knows then it will get a BB for AT.
  • coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    my guess would be tiny moisture droplets formed on the obverse as it was being AT`ed.image
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  • CgbCgb Posts: 710 ✭
    Looks like someone sneezed on it...
  • KablemodemKablemodem Posts: 466
    Someone stored it under a football.
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    LOL, I kinda figured this'd be the range of responses....

    it'll soon to be in the collection of my godson, unless he chooses the white morgan image

    Im going to give him a choice for his "extra christmas present"
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  • BBQnBLUESBBQnBLUES Posts: 1,803 ✭
    Hey.. I LIKE IT image Has the look you'd expect on a coin that's been stashed away in a cedar chest for years.
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Acid Rain??! image
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>LOL, I kinda figured this'd be the range of responses.... it'll soon to be in the collection of my godson, unless he chooses the white morgan image Im going to give him a choice for his "extra christmas present" >>

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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Barf? image





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  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    I like it. It reminds me of the speckling on a scamp (grouper, for those of you who don't fish)image
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  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220 ✭
    I'm not qualified to answer this question. Maybe in fifteen years. Just started this coin stuff, I'm stupid right now.

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