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Toned "NICKEL" got any?.........

OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
3 cent, 5 cent, Shields, Libertys, Buffs, Jeffs, heck Mod Roosies, Washingtons, Kennedys, Ikes ?

I appolagise for my lack of pic skills, or I'd show you a 55 Jeff thats not album toned, but is light
greenish, rosey with a hint of blue and I was just wondering how it acheived the color. Thanks

Steve
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  • spy88spy88 Posts: 764 ✭✭
    Even if you had a picture to post, it would be near impossible to give you a definitive reason
    for the toning. Too many factors behind why a coin tones or what caused it. JMO
    Everything starts and everything stops at precisely the right time for precisely the right reason.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have none, however, much would depend on the year (war nickel with silver etc) and storage environment.... tarnish can be caused by so many variables... temperature, chemicals, humidity, light, no light etc etc..... Cheers, RickO
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    I think the only one book tone is the Mer the others wher in flips.


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  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    It varies wildly. I had a bunch of 1962-1964 proof sets I cut up(to put into rolls) a while back and had some beautiful blueish-purple nickles. I did some more yesterday, and almost all the nickles had a black tarnish on them. They were rather ugly.
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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would ask how you determined it isn't album toned??
  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    These were toned in a plastic holder. All but one got graded by PCGS (that one had a scrape), grades were from 65 to 67:

    Toned War Nickels
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I would ask how you determined it isn't album toned?? >>




    I should say I don't think its album toned, after all theres thirty years of storage I can't account for,
    but for the last 28 years its sat in a standard 2X2 in a vinyl page, and there was some light color
    to it when I bought it but it seams way more vibrant now than when I looked at it last, and that
    was maybe ten years ago, but there are many other years I have and are stored the same way
    in the same book that are the same as I remember them.......?, why the 55 and not the 41 or 42
    or 52, 53, 54...........now the 56 on the other hand was a blast white as I recall and it shows a
    light electric bluish/purplish light and kinda neat......again all proofs stored in 2x2's in a vinyl page
    that holds 20 2x2's.........just wunnering image

    Steve
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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh and Ricc..........have I ever told you thats a nice 42 image

    Steve
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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,349 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I would ask how you determined it isn't album toned?? >>




    I should say I don't think its album toned, after all theres thirty years of storage I can't account for,
    but for the last 28 years its sat in a standard 2X2 in a vinyl page, and there was some light color
    to it when I bought it but it seams way more vibrant now than when I looked at it last, and that
    was maybe ten years ago, but there are many other years I have and are stored the same way
    in the same book that are the same as I remember them.......?, why the 55 and not the 41 or 42
    or 52, 53, 54...........now the 56 on the other hand was a blast white as I recall and it shows a
    light electric bluish/purplish light and kinda neat......again all proofs stored in 2x2's in a vinyl page
    that holds 20 2x2's.........just wunnering image

    Steve >>



    Because I'm no expert, here's my theory. Coins toned due to human error in not only how they monitored the annealing process of the planchets but how the coins were stored by collectors over the years. If the coins were overheated/overcooked, this would bring more copper to the surface of the planchets. Too much copper would literally turn the coins to black.
    The 1955 you have appears to have been subjected to some adverse environment after you pulled the coin from the album. And the 1955 year falls into the era of the later 1950's to early 1960's, for nickels anyway, that suffered from being overheated.
    Other denominations didn't suffer as much due to having a lesser degree of the element of nickel in the planchets making them softer and limited annealing. Although the metal content remained the same for many years for the five centers, the earlier years didn't tone as well for Buffalo and V nickels.
    The use of a propane torch can push more copper to the surface on coins. It's just a matter of how they are stored afterwards and of course, for the purpose of, eventually being sold on the market.


    Leo

    This subject has come up a number of times and the key word to search would be, "annealing".

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    there was some light color
    to it when I bought it but it seams way more vibrant now than when I looked at it last, and that
    was maybe ten years ago, but there are many other years I have and are stored the same way
    in the same book that are the same as I remember them.......?


    logic would presume that when the coin in question was placed in the album by you it still had contaminants on the surfaces that have continued to react with the metal.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a couple that are more colorfull than this, but this one is the only Jeff nickel I have a pic of.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭
    This Buff has just enough color to it for me. image

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    Mike
  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a sweet example.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This Buff has just enough color to it for me. image

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    Mike >>



    GORGEOUS BUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Yes, have a few:
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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What about this popular series?

    Clashes, cuds, toning..... fun little coin.

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    Beautiful display of Nickels WL!image

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A toned "double nickel" - a pattern struck in nickel in 1868, using the old large cent dies:

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    I way overpaid for this coin. And boy am I glad I had the chance to!

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    Some of my favorites:

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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I made this one an MS63 and sold it to a board member.

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  • Hello,

    I haven't posted a pic of a coin 6 years or so. I can't compete with anything in this thread but here are some of the toned Proofs I collected. No one liked them when I showed them here back then. I liked them - even the half. That Walker is Pr66 (I think almost all the set was 66) and totally original - so much so I could not really deal with the fairy dust all over the thing. That color is accurate.
    The dimes I really enjoyed. They were in order Pr 64, Pr63, Pr65 and Pr67 I think.

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    These were all scans made ages ago with an Epson. Wish I had proper photographs. The 1906 is Benson.


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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,759 ✭✭✭✭


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    I was the underbidder on this coin almost 10 years ago. image





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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,759 ✭✭✭✭


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    What an incredible strike!



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  • jomjom Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    I was the underbidder on this coin almost 10 years ago. image >>



    Oh...so it was YOUR fault I paid so much. Grrrr... lol

    BTW, it was actually 12 years ago believe it or not. Where did the time go?

    jom
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 11,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a few toned "nickels";

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