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BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Wonder what makes these coins sometimes take on this deep brown toning image

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    HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Baley,

    That's an interesting question, but I want to make sure I understand it -- are you referring to toning that is deep in the fields, but hardly at all on the devices?
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    sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    or the light blue above eagles left wing and in front of forehead?
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    JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Question Baley- The fields look shiny or glazed in the first set of pics--Does it look that way in hand?
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was just making light of the recent "how does a [coin] tone like this?" threads.

    Both these quarters are stone cold original, imo, toned by time and circulation, and haven't been messed with since.

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    numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

    How do bust quarters tone like this?

    Naturally. image
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    The fields tone while the high points continue to wear thus preventing them from toning. By the time the coin is removed from circulation, toning in the fields has a head start.
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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...my guess would be the 1820's version of one of these image

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    WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    In the case of the 1818...188 years, 3 months, 12 days, 16 hours, 48 minutes, 52 no 53 no 54...never mind.
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    ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    Chemistry !
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    DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    I thought Russ started the thread...

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    longtimecollectorlongtimecollector Posts: 2,369 ✭✭
    Remember........ The Busties are of a slightly different silver composition that anything after them........ Might have something to do with it.
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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,756 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who's on first?
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    lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    Time and Environment, my friend....

    you got yourself some good ole natural cameo toning....

    i noticed this series has a copper coloured (feel like being British today) tinge to them, rather than a silverish one...
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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    here's another brown one no one ever warshed off

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    I can forgive a couple of contemporary test marks for a coin in this grade... particularly if it's an R5

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    BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Post pics of your brown quarters!

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