<<WAKE UP - it is surface degradation and those who pay 'moon money' for these coins have been conned and will never recoup the investment. Cheers, RickO >.
Couldn't disagree more on every word above ( except for the cheers part). I long for the day that monster toned coins start selling for less so I can finish some sets. So far that just has not happened.
If you are correct, then I think white coins will take a massive hit as well. Toned collectors imo will not start buying white coins as to them they are not attractive in most instances. Therefore, toned collectors are likey just to leave the hobby and yes, everything would be affected. JMO. Collect what you like and what your comfortable with. Coins as an investment doesn't seem like the best idea to me anyways. Yes, it would be nice one day to sell them for more then you pay for them and that would be just be gravy. MJ
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
We know that silver coins can tone with great eye appeal or tone ugly, and with modern technology and knowledge, we have learned to understand how a coin tones. It's all chemistry and metallurgy. A coin will tone in the appropriate environment in a matter of days, it doesn't take a coin very long to tone, and not all silver coins equally.
Who cares if I stored silver coins in a bag in my basement and they toned on accident, or I wanted them to tone, so I placed them in a bag in the basement. It's a fine line. I feel a coin should be natural toned if it tones due to it's storage method. However, the same chemical process takes place even if a coin is toned by a coin doctor or the environment it stored in.
I wish I owned a Battle Creek coin- just one. Have never been fond of blazing white/ silvery coins, wondering how a reactive surface would NOT pick up some tarnish over ,say, 120 years.
(academic background is engineering, science with enough surface chemistry and metallurgy to be high-class-ignorant)
WILL WORK FOR CENTS, QUARTERS, HALVES, DOLLARS....
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Couldn't disagree more on every word above ( except for the cheers part). I long for the day that monster toned coins start selling for less so I can finish some sets. So far that just has not happened.
If you are correct, then I think white coins will take a massive hit as well. Toned collectors imo will not start buying white coins as to them they are not attractive in most instances. Therefore, toned collectors are likey just to leave the hobby and yes, everything would be affected. JMO. Collect what you like and what your comfortable with. Coins as an investment doesn't seem like the best idea to me anyways. Yes, it would be nice one day to sell them for more then you pay for them and that would be just be gravy. MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
"Pull away" toning can absolutely be duplicated, often times very easily. Please keep telling yourself it is not, so the doctors can stay in business.
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Who cares if I stored silver coins in a bag in my basement and they toned on accident, or I wanted them to tone, so I placed them in a bag in the basement. It's a fine line. I feel a coin should be natural toned if it tones due to it's storage method. However, the same chemical process takes place even if a coin is toned by a coin doctor or the environment it stored in.
I wish I owned a Battle Creek coin- just one. Have never been fond of blazing white/ silvery coins, wondering how a reactive surface would NOT pick up some tarnish over ,say, 120 years.
(academic background is engineering, science with enough surface chemistry and metallurgy to be high-class-ignorant)
1879-O{Rev}: 1st coin of my "secret set"