What happens to coins that break free from their cellophane...

coindudeonebay

..... and come in contact with the cent?

A recent post got me digging for some proof/mint sets I purchased because of some interesting color.

I have seen many results, some ugly some beautiful. Here are some examples of what I believe to be beautiful. Sorry for the over tilted out of focus first photos, but I wanted to show off the color of the coins and I was too lazy to reshoot them!! The 65 cent would lead you to believe that it was treated by MS70, but this is the way it came. Curiously enough the half of the 65 set is pure white. Maybe the difference in colors is due to the clad versus 90% silver? Also, if you look at the 65 quarter and dime you can see striations across, but strangely enough they go from top to bottom on the quarter and left to right on the dime. Maybe that was the way the planchet was rolled?

Does anyone else have any examples?

DorkGirl

Enjoyed the pics, thanks.

coindudeonebay

My pleasure. I need to redo the SMS coins. Interestingly enough, I once submitted a similar looking dime from a sealed SMS package and it came back as PVC. It did have a couple of spots, but they looked more like debris from the mint. Bummer.

renomedphys