What causes this kind of toning?

hedgehog847 · April 25, 2005 12:18PM

Interesting Toning

Monstavet · April 25, 2005 12:20PM

Fingers dipped in Crisco? Fugly if u ask me.

FC57Coins · April 25, 2005 12:21PM

If I were to guess, chemicals and some well placed thumb prints as decoys.

FatMan · April 25, 2005 12:43PM

<< <i>If I were to guess, chemicals and some well placed thumb prints as decoys. >>

I believe you have guessed correctly.

airplanenut · April 25, 2005 12:45PM

<< <i>If I were to guess, chemicals and some well placed thumb prints as decoys. >>

Sounds about right... I haven't ever seen that seller selling something naturally toned...

michael · April 25, 2005 12:48PM

if i was offered the coin and had to buy it as a favor i would pay $8 for it

michael · April 25, 2005 12:50PM

what causes this type of toning?

it is caused by idiots

RedneckHB · April 25, 2005 12:52PM

it is caused by idiots

NumisOxide · April 25, 2005 1:14PM

<< <i>what causes this type of toning?

it is caused by idiots >>

That pretty much sums it up.

D · April 25, 2005 1:29PM

Blatant AT.

-Daniel

TonedPeaceNut · April 25, 2005 1:30PM

Heres one possible explanation I got from Braddick --

"Pure copper wire is placed around the coin (works best on larger sized coins, such as dollars) and then slowly heated. The rim of the coin will fade slowly into brighter colors, such as yours.

To add to the 'realism', one side (usually the reverse, but not always) is then Q-Tipped with dip and cleaned to present a one sided toned coin.

The entire process takes about five minutes. You usually see this done to somewhat inexpensive coins.
The 'tell' is the bright side is usually not a silvery brilliance, but appears to have that white, dipped look, and the very closest part of the rim is never a "neon" shade of tone but rather appears washed out. No matter how slowly the wire is heated up (and, there is a technic to heating the copper wire and not the coin itself) that closest part of the rim will (almost) always have that 'tell'."

Hope that helps.

TPN

CoinResource · April 25, 2005 2:35PM

Perhaps Chemicals + Canvas. Very unusual location.

Another one!!!!!

hedgehog847 · April 25, 2005 4:15PM

Just as fugly as the one I found!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

PutTogether · April 25, 2005 7:56PM

Somone that thank god only killed a 23 and not some other peace dollar.

skerke · April 26, 2005 1:25AM

So does that mean the Great Souterhn Coins - the seller, is a bad dealer, for trying to sell a (what seems obvious to many here) a 'problem' coin?

skerke · April 26, 2005 1:30AM

Straight from their listing - Great Southern Coins is a Southern Louisiana coin wholesaler. We are new to eBay, but it is our intent to offer high quality coins and exceptional honest service...As all coin dealers know, coin grading is subjective. To the best of our ability, we will give honest opinions on grading.

I would think that BS AT would be a part of the whole honesty thing.

They are now on my blacklisted list of sellers/buyers. Thanks. I appreciate the comments on this board and although there are exceptions, I figure there are plenty of others to buy/sell, so I add all the people discussed here iwith resonable comments/complaints/concers to my Blacklist. Keep up the good detective work and I love reading the ebay posts!!

Skerke

dorkkarl · April 26, 2005 9:12PM

<< <i>Q: What causes this kind of toning? >>

A: a totally cr@ppy tone-job

K S

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