Yet Another [Awesome] Toned Canadian

Options
Darkhorse
Darkhorse Posts: 1,377
in World & Ancient Coins Forum
image

Last week when I got my Royal Visit medal the dealer showed me another BC toner. I didn't buy it because I already had one... but the toning just stuck in my head because it was just so cool. So I just bought it.
It has an amazing golden tone but the best part is that the gold tone is apparent at all angles. In some lighting my blue one looks dark, but for the most part in this one the light will catch an aspect of the golden (and I do mean golden) toning.

My blue toned BC dollar has a few hairlines on the reverse ( that aren't apparent in my sig because of the lighting) which may knock the coin to SP66. I'm no micrograder though. This one seems pretty clean though and I'd wager a SP67.

The obverse however is pretty much white with some subtle red streaky toning around the edge and incidentally around the whole of the portrait.

Comments

  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Beautiful British Columbia image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • Clankeye
    Clankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Options
    The Golden Glow of a Gorgeous Coin.

    Yes, I find that when they stick in your head like that... you better go back and buy them.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Phil,
    You should ask NEN if they need a coin photograher/scanner. If I had your skills I could double my eBay sales. NICE photos you have.

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • Darkhorse
    Darkhorse Posts: 1,377
    Options
    What's NEN? I've been seeing this acronym a lot recently.
    I probably shouldn't be saying but I'll be taking some photos for JohnZ soon, however this will be a new challenge to me because I'll be taking pictures through plastic and not raw as I usually do. Shoudln't be too rough of a transition.
  • Coincracker
    Coincracker Posts: 276
    Options
    Gotta like gold tonning.image
  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    NEN = Northeast Numismatics out of Concorde, MA

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • Darkhorse
    Darkhorse Posts: 1,377
    Options
    I wouldn't think they'd actively look for photographers.
    I'll ask Jeremy about the whole prospect of coin photograph too.
  • cacheman
    cacheman Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Don't let wsm see it, he'll offer you $0.79 for it and then get it slabbed...image
    karlgoetz.com
    karlgoetzmedals.com
  • 1jester
    1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Really, really nice color, DH!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • sumnom
    sumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Options
    I usually am not into toned coins but this one is beautiful.
  • Fairlaneman
    Fairlaneman Posts: 10,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Very Pretty ! Cleaned the dealer out of these ?

    Ken
  • cosmicdebris
    cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Gorgeous color DH.
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
  • Syracusian
    Syracusian Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    What ajaan said. NEN - or any other dealer with poor photography (compared to yours).


    image
    Dimitri



    myEbay



    DPOTD 3
  • Clankeye
    Clankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Options
    Here is a picture of what the coins look like in the cases they were sold in. Note the piece of sponge. These cases are little toning chambers.

    image
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • cosmicdebris
    cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Options
    I can't wait to see what a few liteside coins I have baking in them turn out like.image
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
  • Darkhorse
    Darkhorse Posts: 1,377
    Options
    I certainly got the best toned coins I could find in this city. I emailed Colonial Acres to see if they had any but they've already been picked out.

    My blue toned one seemed to not come with a sponge. I've been thinking of leaving a britannia in one of the cases though, perhaps leaving the case in the bathroom or something so the moisture can also help the reaction.
  • historygeek
    historygeek Posts: 792
    Options
    NONONOONOOOOOOOOO! Use junk box silver to experiment with toning ok? Sigh, I know this from experience.image
    Corrupting youth since 2004
  • oldshep
    oldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Options
    I just got my 1971 Canadian cased dollar from Ajaan and it hasn't toned as much as yours but looks like it could. I'm getting more and more to admiring these Canadian dollars.
    Shep
    image
  • Clankeye
    Clankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Options
    Come to the Gray Side, oldshep! Dang it, it's just fun.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • oldshep
    oldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Options
    Clank - I'm afraid I already have one foot mired in the graysideimage
    Shep
    image
  • laurentyvan
    laurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Allright Darkhorse, ever since you've posted the picture of the '71 I've been looking; I can't seem to shake the image you've posted.
    I found one blue and one black box British Columbia dollars, the nickel and the silver comm. at $2.50 and $6.00, the '73 RCMP for $6.00 and the '72 silver voyageur for $6.00. The nickel was bright and untoned, the other three are in various shades of blue and purple, red and orange, none nearly as pretty as yours Darkhorse. I was pleased to find them inexpensively.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato

Categories