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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,047 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tough to tell from the lighting in those pics...but I'm guessing no. Unless it's one of those dirty grey original high AU's that saw some time in an album.
  • EurekaGoldEurekaGold Posts: 150 ✭✭
    NO
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm thinking not original. And even if the skin is original, I'm not crazy about the eye appeal.





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  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭
    Dipped and retoned -/
    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great look !

    Don't know if its original or not, not sure anyone here really does image
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Nope JC got it right.
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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the highlighted gray on the devices against the colorful target toning around the perimeter. I am thinking that SeattleSlammer got it right about how the coin received it's toning.

    Nice close up pictures on this one image
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: jcping
    Dipped and retoned -/


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  • DRUNNERDRUNNER Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Completely no.

    Cyanided in the 1940-1950 era and album retoned. Still a nice numismatic piece . .

    Just my opinion . . .


    Drunner
  • PutTogetherPutTogether Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: jcping
    Dipped and retoned -/


    Agreed.

    It has the exact look that has become totally acceptable, and basically the norm, for Capped Bust Halves.



  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No... however, it could be one of several methods used to retarnish the coin.... I will say this,

    it was not done by an expert... if it had been, everyone would be calling it a monster. Cheers, RickO
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: PutTogether

    Originally posted by: jcping

    Dipped and retoned -/




    Agreed.



    It has the exact look that has become totally acceptable, and basically the norm, for Capped Bust Halves.







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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks AT

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like secondary toning to me. I agree with the dipped and retoned crowd.
  • PutTogetherPutTogether Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: roadrunner
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    Haha! image

    Am I wrong? On a Morgan, everyone knows it isn't right. On a CBH - toning like this gets described as 'original' all the time. Pet peeve of mine.

    Liking a coin with this toning is fine - they can be pretty. It is seller's habits of describing coins like this in a deceiving manner that I find awful.

    This is only tangentially related to the OPs original question, so I will end the derail.


    Edited: To fix punctuation, capitalization, and because i forgot to make a winky face.

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