What looks "wrong" about the tone on this coin to you??
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I know what looks wrong to me, but tell me what you think just doesn't seem natural about the color on this Peace Dollar. Thanks.
Al H.
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in the upper left from 9 to 12). It's also AT. I would suspect it was some kind of liquid toning that was
used but I'm not an expert on the "how to tone" methods. That horseshoe shaped arc on the obverse
is just plain impossible in the real world (someone will flame me on that statement).
Nice pick up for $8 if you can get it and then dip it and then spend it on something better!
bob
Does anyone out there own a dictionary? How about a computer with 'SpellCheck'? Maybe live next door to a high school English teacher?
It seems that a requisite talent to making an ebay listing is to look like a 4th grade rube. Perhaps that is part of the set-up?
Sorry. Just a bit OT but I voted AT (Color flow appears liquid and repeats too often).
Drunner
Hm.
In general, yes it looks very odd and unnatural. But you want specifics.
I find it odd that it is toned most of the way around the edge, but one part of the edge is clean. In fact, on the reverse, there is a region that looks beyond clean...cleaned is the word I am looking for. The auction mentions this coin has not been cleaned. I doubt that.
It's as if the toning was done quickly and carefully and the coin was pulled from the toning box at 'just the right time' to get a bunch of repeating color bands. They didn't leave it in long enough to develop stronger or terminal colors.
Seems a little heavy on the green. That is a heck of a way to describe a silver coin, eh?
The pattern of the banding bothers me. It's a series of crescents following the shape of the clean patch.
What is natural about the color on this Peace Dollar? I'm sorry, I cannot answer that. It does not look like this coloring was attained 'by mistake' or 'naturally' to me. On the front of the coin, there is some very lightly toned warm looking areas. Some peace dollars i've seen have a little bit of that color, but typically around the rim. I'm struggling to find anything natural about this one.
Here's a morgan that was left in the toning box far too long on one side!
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quite a few of his coins look a little funny to me.
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That isn't to say this *can't* happen, I can imagine any number of scenarios of coin on coin layout where it could. But, yes, that is what struck me when I first pulled up the link as well.
Lastly, the shape on the obverse does not lend itself to matching any particular coin size.
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<< <i>What looks "wrong" about the tone on this coin to you?? >>
Everything. The color, the pattern, the opacity, the fact that Peace Dollars don't tone like this, etc.
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Look at those bands, and the green, put that on a Morgan$ and a bit better technique........ and in a slab...... ah, never mind.
Edit, and we can't tell anything from an image so all answers are not valid.
I particularly liked the "Easter Egg Toning Kit" comment.
And the one about how it resembled an oil slick.