Those were the days, David.

Mesquite

David Hall.

Man, I sometimes wish we had one do-over with the do-over being done knowing what we know today.

Baley

The toners weren't that easy to find back in the day when they were $8 or 10 a coin. If I would have saved every coin I saw, I bet it wouldn't have been much more than 100 or 200 coins out of the 10 million. That's why I'm very suspicious of some of today's toners. And many of the toners of today just aren't the same colors that were seen in the 1970s and 1980s. So unless you believe global warming is changing the color of Morgan dollars, there's something fishy about some of today's toners.

Yep. I think that every time I see a common date, obverse toned "monster" Morgan with the "perfect" bands of amber/pink/blue (the "easy" colors to fake) right across the center of the coin. Usually, everyone oohs and ahhhs, but no one asks, "just how was the coin supposed to have been laying in the bag, to get that arrangement?"

jmski52

The toners weren't that easy to find back in the day when they were $8 or 10 a coin. If I would have saved every coin I saw, I bet it wouldn't have been much more than 100 or 200 coins out of the 10 million. That's why I'm very suspicious of some of today's toners. And many of the toners of today just aren't the same colors that were seen in the 1970s and 1980s. So unless you believe global warming is changing the color of Morgan dollars, there's something fishy about some of today's toners.

I agree. When I started going to some of the shows in St. Louis in the early to mid '80s, I rarely saw a toned coin.

On the other hand, I stored some BU ATBs in a place where I shouldn't have stored them for awhile, and I notice that a couple of them have a faint rainbow around the edges now.

tneig

But that is now. There are so many possibilities. First narrow by how many years you have to hold, 5, 10, 20, +, then get thinking.....



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AUandAG

I agree with David's assessment of the amount (few) of toners in bags back in the day.

I honestly do not remember ONE wildly toned silver dollar from the hundreds of bags that
I opened for a casino back in 1960-64 (David must have beat me to the bags!). Nah, they
were mint sewn. We saw quite a few ugly, brown and black dollars. Those we cleaned as
the clientele did not like them (they looked dirty). It was just ugly toning.

I can count on no hands the number of nice toners that I saw.

So, like David, I am very suspect. The GSA dollars are an oddity as so many were wonderfully
toned and nicely so. I don't understand why the difference.

bob

Coyn

In 1985 I lived in San Diego and bought a silver dollar collection (about 30 coins) at an estate sale. Price differences was huge for hi grade but there was no TPG so everyone had thier own idea of a gem. One of the coins, an 1880-S was almost flawless, just one little mark on the front. Two coin chops in SD said it was Ok but not close to 65 . I saw David Hall had an advertisement "$500 for any MS65 silver dollar" so I went up to OC and went to thier office. Met a guy named Howard who looked it over and asked how much I wanted. I said "500 bucks ". He said, "Ok, ill get you a check" and I nearly fell off my chair (paid about 10 for it).

Of course, I immediate thought I shoulda asked more, LOL

The next week Harlan White, SD coin shop, asked if I wanted to sell that coin I had brought in. When I said I had sold it he replied, "I told you I wanted that coin.", (yeah right, for 20 bucks.)

The wild west days of collecting.