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Would this be considered attractive toning?

USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The coin appears to be nearly gold plated. You can see a small part around the "T" in liberty that looks like a finger print where someone held the coin. The same "finger" mark is on the other side as well as the gold tone. It is currently in a PCGS MS65 holder...

What could cause such toning?

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a really big penny! kinda cool
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Would this be considered attractive toning? >>


    OH YES!!image
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I like it.
  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    Hmmmmmm.....NO

    Michael
  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Michael,

    I kind of agree with you. All though I'm biased because it's my coin; it just looks strange. It looks a lot like those gold plated ones that you can purchase. But, we all know that PCGS would never slab one. It certainly is different...
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I wouldn't want a whole set of Ikes that looked like this one, but I think that it's interesting.
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭


    << <i>I wouldn't want a whole set of Ikes that looked like this one >>



    I don't know - I'm working on a gold set of silver Kennedy's - I think it looks kinda neat image

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  • DollarsDollars Posts: 617 ✭
    WOW FC 57 those are too cool. Nice set indeed.
    Dave
    In Laurel
    MD

    Just a fist full of Dollars
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭


    << <i>I don't know - I'm working on a gold set of silver Kennedy's - I think it looks kinda neat >>



    image!!!showoff!!!image
  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool!!! I like the toning, very unique.



    << <i> I'm working on a gold set of silver Kennedy's >>



    Frank, way to nice...love that 68, third down from the top.image
    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • dan1ecudan1ecu Posts: 1,573
    I like it! I would consider it a special coin BECAUSE it's different.
    Dan McInnes

    mcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu">dmcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu
  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice Frank! Amazing as a matter of fact. I just wonder what causes it...
  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    The toning doesn't appeal to me, it seems suspiciously uniform to me. However it may seem better looking in person I don't know. When I first saw it I thought flesh was relflected on the coin or simply the shot was taken under a tugnsten bulb without a filter.

    Here are my Canadian dollars which I've shown you before.
    image

    For me great toning has visual appeal any which way you look at it. The golden toned dollar on the top left has this and looks great all the time.
    The blue toned one is better looking in more direct like which highlights the blue of course. The toning on the bottom left tooks cool but only in direct light, preferably daylight, otherwise it looks muddy.

    Of course I don't have much experience with toned US coins but that may change soon.
  • USMC_6115USMC_6115 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are awesome too. Normally, I like my coins white and lustrous! But, I can easily see the attraction to the beauty of these coins.
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Clad coins appear to turn gold colored in albums or plastic holders over the years. I have a number of clad coins that I've had in snap plastic holders which have turned a very nice gold color - both MS and PR coins. As for DH's dollars, I believe those came in velvet cases, which reacted to the coins in dramatic ways as shown by his dollars which are very cool. I've seen a number of them like that and they can be very beautiful. Unfortunately the ones that I have seen have had a lot of hairlines due to the naked coin being exposed to the velvet case as well. As for the gold toning on my silver Kennedy's, most of these come from the ends of rolls. Every once in a while you will see a very bright and beautiful example peeking out of the end of an original shotgun roll of Kennedy's.
  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377


    << <i>Unfortunately the ones that I have seen have had a lot of hairlines due to the naked coin being exposed to the velvet case as well. >>



    The blue toned one unfortunately has this problem which is a bummer. The golden one is pretty clean though.

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