Any guesses on how this toning occured?

K6AZ · May 23, 2005 3:56AM

I've never seen one like this before. My best guess is a rubber band.

xbob · May 23, 2005 3:58AM

My guess would be a rubber band around a stack and this was an end coin.

PerryHall · May 23, 2005 4:02AM

<< <i>My guess would be a rubber band around a stack and this was an end coin. >>

I agree. Rubber bands are high in sulpher. Stretch one a few times and you can smell it.

K6AZ · May 23, 2005 4:11AM

I've seen rubber band toned Morgans before, but usually they have had a broad stripe. If this is a rubber band, a very small one was used. May be worth it to buy this and get a good look at it.

Shamika · May 23, 2005 4:16AM

While I also agree that it's probably a rubber band, I happen to be conducting a long term experiment on this very same thing.

Almost five years ago I put two flashy new Lincoln cents in a container of rubber bands that I have in my desk drawer at work. In fact, I even stretched a rubber band around one of the cents four times. I fully expected the coins to show color within a month. But to my surprise, both coins are still full red although the flash has dulled a bit.

Maybe they no longer use butadiene rubber or maybe they're using something other than sulfer as a crosslinking agent. But the smell is no different that any other rubber band that I've used in the last 30 years.

VAMs4U2BuyHere · May 23, 2005 4:22AM

String???

Would be of a similar material as wood/canvas and might explain the banded toning.

Besides, I haven't had a stretched rubberband last more than a year without breaking.

Coinhusker1 · May 23, 2005 4:41AM

Rubber band stripes are usually impossible to remove. I tried to have NCS remove one from a Peace Dollar and they could not get it all.

xbob · May 23, 2005 5:05AM

Here's a coin from a stack my Grandfather wrapped in a red newspaper rubberband. When I went to remove the band, I found it had stuck and corroded into the coin. It had been there so long, it was dry and black. I did a lot of soaking and then did a few times with washing/soda and aluminum foil conservation method to get the crud to fall off. The rubberband left streaks in the luster as you can see and corroded deeper cracks the silver in several places. I ended up selling it on ebay to get $ for other coins.

I wouldn't ever put rubber bands near coins after seeing this one.

mnmcoin · May 23, 2005 5:25AM

Bag toning with two clipped planchet dollars sitting on it???

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Scavenger · May 23, 2005 5:42AM

How would toning such as this affect this coin if you sent it in for grading?

airplanenut · May 23, 2005 5:44AM

Eric,

Could be one of those sissy thin rubber bands

<< <i>How would toning such as this affect this coin if you sent it in for grading? >>

Looks like it's holdered by PCGS already

D · May 23, 2005 5:46AM

I was recently trying to find out how some SAEs tone so fast and get certain colors, I had results much like that from a matchstick. Not the most likely thing to have toned the Morgan, but a possibility if the man smoked a pipe or fine cigars!

-Daniel

anablep · May 23, 2005 6:17AM

Thin rubberband wrapped around a few times...

Tonelover · May 23, 2005 6:39AM

A classic example of toothpick toning.

Any guesses on how this toning occured?

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