Let’s see some beautifully toned CLAD…..
MEJ7070
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I have to say that I had little to no appreciation for clad coinage of any type until I began my 7070 journey 10 years ago. Hunting down the “right” Sacagawea, SBA, and post ‘64 Roosevelt and Washington examples over the years was my introduction and education into modern coinage, and while I wouldn’t say I’m an “avid” collector of toned clad, I’ve certainly come to appreciate it!
All of these are currently residing in my 7070 set. Would love to see some of what you guys have!
The ‘82 Washington and 50 D Jefferson were sub $5.00 raw purchases. Definitely my cheapest but also some of my most enjoyable coins for this set.
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I've shown these before but it's been a while. They're my best and favorites.
@MEJ7070 . How often do you see toned clad coins? From my experience in the world you may have the single largest collection known to man. James
Nice! I don't see many toned clad coins that often.
Here’s a few uncirculated clad toners (in my opinion proofs are typically uncirculated too, so not just business strikes). I submitted these ones myself just because I like them, but they really aren’t worth slabbing. I have a bunch more uncirculated raw toned coins, mostly in albums, that also aren’t worth the cost of slabbing and that I just want to keep in albums and also never bothered taking pictures of.
And here are a few circulated clad toners, super hard to find these slabbed because the slab costs way more than the coins are worth. I think I have a couple more circulated slabbed clad toners that I haven’t photographed, but not many. I have some kind of photo for about 90% of my slabbed coins. I want circulated slabbed clad ones to match my 19th century slabbed ones that are in my circulated type sets. I don’t really have a desire/passion to go after uncirculated ones for my slabbed type sets for modern coins, but I do have uncirculated moderns in albums.
Mr_Spud
@Mr_Spud . Any idea as to whether the toned clad population is very small or does your slabbing comments skew the results? James
I've gotten several toned clads for my 7070; I had a beautiful 69 Washington proof that got hazy on me in the 7070, so I swapped it out. I do have a 69 proof Lincoln in there that has some really vibrant color on the reverse.
The slabbing comments skew the results, using your words to describe what I see. Clad coins tone as easily as nickels is what i see, and nickels tone easily and are available much older than clad so i can see what older nickels toners look like and also what toned nickels look like that are newer as in post 1965 and clad is similar. Clad also ATs very similar to nickels from when I used to do AT experiments on pocket change.
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Fun idea for a thread! Here are some of my type examples:
I bought these from a local show. I just couldnt pass them up.
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@MEJ7070 the 81 D Roosie looks very nice
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@david3142 the 66 Roosie is stunning.
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(Technically, a nickel isn't clad.)
Beautiful coins here!
Thanks all for sharing.
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Forgot to add this one:
While I’m at it:
Not mine I just shot if for a frorum member eleven years ago.
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Your's is much more colorful, this one arrives Saturday:
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Here are some of my toned clads.
I have quite a few clad washies that I find compelling:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/326152
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nice 1980 Roosie @robec
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It would seem that the toning factor has resulted in a higher than normal interest in clad coinage collecting. Albeit still scarce to find in circulation. I have not found a one in circulation.
Wow guys! Some amazing examples posted here.
@robec Wow.
@david3142 Ditto.
@Mr_Spud and @SanctionII Very impressive stuff!
@seatedlib3991 Ha! I think we’ve had a chance to see so far in this thread that I’m not even close to being in the stratosphere. And I very rarely see any beautifully toned clad stuff like this “in the wild”. The few examples I’ve purchased raw were from my LCS who I’ve dealt with for 15+ years and basically were thrown into other deals. I had my expense for the ‘82 Washington listed at “$2” and the 50 D Jefferson at “$5” before grading. I could buy higher graded examples for the type set for not much money probably, but I love the look on both! (TV for the 82 Washington doesn’t capture the obverse rainbow toning quite as well as in hand)
@airplanenut I figured there must be a Sac or 2 out there just as well toned or nicer than mine. I was right
. Those are incredible!
@braddick Good call. I was cheating posting that 50 D
Amazing coins guys. Did not expect to get to see some museum quality stuff when I started this thread. Really cool to see!
Finding a nicely toned drummer boy has been a serious challenge for me. My current 7070 example is a 67 with some pretty meh toning on the obverse, but it’s the nicest non blast white example I’ve been able to find that wasnt/isn’t priced like it’s made out of freakin gold instead of clad.
I really, really like this coin!
Really good point about a lot of these coins not being worth the cost of slabbing. I’d venture to guess that some of the most beautifully toned clad coins out there are still in raw form, which certainly can’t be said for 99.9% of classic US coinage.
Obviously I can only speak for myself, but for me the 7070 set pursuit was what brought me to toned clad. I’d bet others out there have decided to pursue toned examples specially for inclusion in type sets.
I wanted to add a degree of difficulty to the moderns that wasn’t based solely on grade (or money), and also buy coins I’d want to look at and study regularly, which is how I roll with the coins I normally collect. Blast white bicentennial Kennedys or aren’t going to scratch that itch for me (no disrespect to anyone who loves them).
Pulled from a Littleton album, found some of the prettiest toned coins in their albums.
Found sorting through a bag of 40% making sure there was no 90 mixed in.
Bought on eBay .
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Besides type set collecting and the toning factor, one other thing is the birth year sets. For those born in 1965 or later, there are fewer silver choices (and sometimes none).
I am not so sure if this is NT or not but, thanks to PCGS I know it is market acceptable. It's graded MS68 FB.
No '75 dimes! This is the only one that I've found "common". The bicentennial in the same set are toned nearly as often.
There are not just pretty coins in this thread but a lot of high grade coins that are tough.
They've got a cool story, too...
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1113792/a-group-of-spectacularly-toned-2000-sacagawea-dollars-freshly-photographed
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1113336/flight-report-my-great-flying-day-turned-into-an-even-better-coin-and-flying-day)
Interesting that a smattering of 1982 and 1983 clad coins show up. None can be cut from uncirculated sets.
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I posted an 82-D dime above. Here’s my favorite 1983 toner:
Nice finds. Not many have the “stones” to have moderns slabbed.
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Every coin I’ve posted I bought already slabbed. I’ve never found any nicely toned modern clad in the wild. I hardly ever go to shows anymore and I don’t bother with eBay so I don’t really have access to raw coins.
As I was disposing of the bulk of my clad I saved all the nice toners. I doubt there are even 100 them and none of them are as nice as the nicest ones here. 1975 dimes can be found but these were from mint sets and the mint sets are tarnishing.