The 1942 posted by Relics is the only coin I see on this whole thread with a full strike. Luster and skin are great but weak strikes bother me. When the hand is flat it jumps out at me. Just my own opinion and why I dont have but a few Walkers since full strikes are tough. A shame because I think it is our most beautiful coin.
What a great post. I thought that this was a great time to post my first pictures on the PCGS board. Stman and my friends have brought me out of the closet so to speak. Wanted to show how storage plays such an important part in how ALL silver coins look. Am in a "unique" position to do this. These two 1938 Walkers were bought out of the same grouping of over 60 MS coins that I purchased "raw" on Ebay back in 2006.
The first coin---with the great toning----was in a Wayte Raymond page. The second coin was stored in a blue Whitman folder. Both coins were part of two sets of coins---owned by the same collector----and stored in the same places since they were placed there in the year of issue. I purchased this gentleman's coins and kept them in order when submitted for grading. The MS coins from both sets started in 1936 and ran till the end of the series in 1947.
As you can see, the first coin acquired a lot of toning from the sulfur of the Wayte page. The second coin from the Whitman folder remained mostly the off white that one would expect from a silver coin after 70 years. It looks more like what an off white unmessed with Walker should look like IMHO.
Keep in mind that the Walker Wayte set mostly looks more like the first 1938 coin----while the Whitman stored coins look like the second 1938 coin. In actuality, both 1938 coins probably came from the same place---maybe even the same roll of coins. I have "many" examples out of these two sets that show this same effect.
I consider Wayte stored coins to have more of that " creamy patel" look---and certainly display much more toning overall than those coins stored in blue Whitman folders. The Whitman coins seem to have a harsher looking toning---much of it at the rims---much of it a more russet kind of toning. Not that the Whitman coins don't look OK----but just that you can look at the coins and tell immediately where they came from. I thought it interesting that all the coins came from the same two sets that were owned by the same collector----and stored in the same place----with such startling differences in appearance. I hope that this will help many of you in your Walker quest.
Want to thank my dear friends for their kind words----and for keeping after me as they know that I am totally inept with the computer. Also, thank you to my wife----as I simply cannot take a picture and put it on this computer. Bob [supertooth]
Glad we pulled out some original Walkers in this thread. And they can be stunning without color. Another bad image here, but you can look at least in right field and see that pearl looking skin. Glad we pulled out supertooth as well! The color on periph of this one is actually quite nice. Still, for what I'm talking about I prefer just thick, thick white skin. But I really like this one.
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<< <i>This coin I bought from Legend years ago, and is their image. I'd rather have one completely white though. The image isn't so great and doesn't show the skin as thick as it is in person but it's all I got....... It's actually pearly white, with better color on the periph than the image suggests.
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Great thread stman. While I have never collected this series other than 4 or 5 examples for the type, I sure can appreciate this absolute beauty you posted here.
I have seen that creamy kind of skin you are referring to, but I have not seen it often nor have I ever owned an example.
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The first coin---with the great toning----was in a Wayte Raymond page. The second coin was stored in a blue Whitman folder. Both coins were part of two sets of coins---owned by the same collector----and stored in the same places since they were placed there in the year of issue. I purchased this gentleman's coins and kept them in order when submitted for grading. The MS coins from both sets started in 1936 and ran till the end of the series in 1947.
As you can see, the first coin acquired a lot of toning from the sulfur of the Wayte page. The second coin from the Whitman folder remained mostly the off white that one would expect from a silver coin after 70 years. It looks more like what an off white unmessed with Walker should look like IMHO.
Keep in mind that the Walker Wayte set mostly looks more like the first 1938 coin----while the Whitman stored coins look like the second 1938 coin. In actuality, both 1938 coins probably came from the same place---maybe even the same roll of coins. I have "many" examples out of these two sets that show this same effect.
I consider Wayte stored coins to have more of that " creamy patel" look---and certainly display much more toning overall than those coins stored in blue Whitman folders. The Whitman coins seem to have a harsher looking toning---much of it at the rims---much of it a more russet kind of toning. Not that the Whitman coins don't look OK----but just that you can look at the coins and tell immediately where they came from. I thought it interesting that all the coins came from the same two sets that were owned by the same collector----and stored in the same place----with such startling differences in appearance. I hope that this will help many of you in your Walker quest.
Want to thank my dear friends for their kind words----and for keeping after me as they know that I am totally inept with the computer. Also, thank you to my wife----as I simply cannot take a picture and put it on this computer. Bob [supertooth]
That is really nice!
<< <i>This coin I bought from Legend years ago, and is their image. I'd rather have one completely white though. The image isn't so great and doesn't show the skin as thick as it is in person but it's all I got....... It's actually pearly white, with better color on the periph than the image suggests.
Great thread stman.
While I have never collected this series other than 4 or 5 examples for the type, I sure can appreciate
this absolute beauty you posted here.
I have seen that creamy kind of skin you are referring to, but I have not seen it often nor have I ever owned an example.