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Eye Candy - my newest BLUE toned Rosy Dimes
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All recently acquired - including one coin from Board member Krptonitecomics. Always looking for new BLUE rosy's!
Craig
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
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I'm sure its not easy to locate similarly toned Roosies. I'm trying to do the same with Morgans and its not easy, but keeps me occupied to say the least.
Good luck with your collection!!
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
Its not uncommon to find blue toned roosevelts - especially in Whitamn albums. Certain positions in those albums (and others) seem to be more condusive than others and as a consequence, blue colors for those date/mint mark coins are common. A good example is the 47S which sits in the upper right hand corner of the 1st page in the album. Interestingly enough, there are certain date/mint mark coins where blue toning is uncommon - and many of the D mint coins tend to fall into this category.
The 1957 and 1958 mint sets also seem to produce quite a few blue toned coins however, once again, its the P mints that tone blue and the D mints that do not. Quite strange.
One is also much more likely to find blue dimes in NGC holders than PCGS holders. In fact, there are two primary ranges of NGC serial numbers where its quite common to find blue toned dimes. This infers that many of these blue dimes were submitted in two groups. Either someone had quite the cache of blue dimes or someone was equally adept at making them! SNs starting with 503 and 506 are common as well as a number in the 700-703 range. These are the old fat holder style slabs. One much more infrequently sees blue dimes in newer holders but they do surface. The coins pictures here are almost all in old NGC fat-boy holders in the SNs noted above.
Having said that, I and other collectors, have been quite successful at crossing nice blue NGC MS67 dimes to PCGS MS67 dimes. I've probably crossed several dozen over the last 5 years that were blue (and many others that were not). Some have subsequently upgraded to NGC MS68's and even PCGS MS68's. And yes, there are blue PCGS MS68's.
Perhaps what brings up the AT vs NT question immediately, is most people are not use to seeing so many blue coins at once. I've spent the better part of the last 5 years looking for these coins so whan I post a group, many people see so many blue toned coins that they wonder if someone is making them! And the honest answer is that I don't know but it was certainly possible given how they were submitted years ago.
Here's some more.....
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Jonathan
I especially like the new 48-s and 60-d
and they're cold.
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Mary
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Once the set is complete...it will be quite an acheivement
TorinoCobra71
Yellowjacket
All beauties!!!
What peaked your interest in collecting "blue" Roosies? Is there a story behind it?
Here's one of only a few blue ones I own:
Absolutely gorgeous collection of dimers!
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Fooling!!!! I shouldn't have let you get that 48S, nice photo!!!!
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Thanks again
What an incredible set of coins!!!!
And I also just found out today that this coin has been holdered PCGS MS66. I really needed a 63D so I'm very happy!
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<< <i>Xpipe, did you recently buy that coin you've pictured? I made that coin and gave it to greattoning to sell on ebay. >>
Yup, it even had your name on the back
Wow. Those are some beauties. I often wonder what my set of Roosies would look like now... I sold them and put some lawn-mowing funds with it to buy a set of Frankies back in 1975.... an award-winning set of 1/2's, it turned out.
Clay
Proud to be a real Hatfield family member
P.S. Hey Tassa- I think I got a nice toned 55D. When I can get to it I'll take some pics and sent them your way.