What happened to this SLQ? - More images added!

NumisMe · January 16, 2012 9:48AM

Looking for some answers as to what is wrong with this Standing Liberty Quarter and what could have caused it.

It has a nice strike and looks very good in hand once you get past the brown color.

Is this some kind of corrosion, and if so, from what.

I have included 2 images of the obverse and the reverse with different lighting angles so that you can see the detail better.

Please note that the light mark on the wing of the reverse and the white spots on the obverse are on the holder, not the coin.

Cheers !

AnkurJ · January 16, 2012 10:00AM

Stored in a leather pouch maybe.

LanceNewmanOCC · January 16, 2012 10:04AM

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what a beauty

i don't know what caused it, just wanted to comment

after looking at this little lady sure makes me wish there were a copper trial/pattern strike of this coin!
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jedm · January 16, 2012 10:04AM

I am just guessing to initiate discussion, but is it leather "coin purse" toning?

braddick · January 16, 2012 10:45AM

I like it!
I wish it were for sale. I'd love to own it.

NumisMe · January 17, 2012 12:04AM

I purchased this back in 2003 because it looks awsome. It has more detail than any one I own or have ever seen in person.
I dug it out the other day and was just amazed how good it looks in hand and again started wondering what could have caused this.

It is in an ANACS holder that claims "Corrosion" but I have yet to find any explaination for it.

It also says "UNC DETAILS AU55" but it sure looks MS to me. Anyway, I love this coins and really would like to know more about it.

Cheers!

ricko · January 17, 2012 12:58AM

The discoloration is very uniform on both sides. Although leather can cause that type of discoloration, I have not seen it that uniform overall before. I would suggest, if you have access to a scanning electron microscope (company lab etc), to have a surface analysis done. It could give you a clue as to what happened. Cheers, RickO

hammered54 · January 17, 2012 2:00AM

one to many dips ?

magikbilly · January 17, 2012 2:22AM

Hi,

Wow! Nice strike!!! Full toes?

I have seen this color on a few of these early SLQ's and some I know were original, others left me queasy. I can't decide what is going on here. I like it, I don't like it... It first struck me as secondary tone but I can't say from here. There are no other colors at all?

Best wishes,
Eric

SBK · January 17, 2012 6:32AM

The complete originality of this coin is in question. I'm not quite sure what could have caused the color to look exactly like that. The coin looks beautiful though. I also don't see any evidence of corrosion and I've never seen such "tone" called corrosion before, if that is indeed why it was attributed as such. I would probably take this coin out of its holder and either stick it in an album raw or resubmit. It very likely may come back without any remarks and if it does, it should be called "questionable color" or at worst "cleaned". "Corrosion" and "pitted" are the two ugliest remarks on slabs and the ones where it usually is better to have the coin raw unless it's literally a very rare and/or often faked coin.

NumisMe · January 17, 2012 1:56PM

<< <i>Wow! Nice strike!!! Full toes? >>

You caught that, too. Everyone always looks at the head, but how many of these actually have "Full Toes"? Maybe there should be a new designation?

Well here are 2 more images of this coin. The first is of the entire holder. The second is yet another image of the obverse that I took with the addition of a clear 60watt incandescent light to try to bring out more of the color changes that are present but very subtle. I still can't capture the somewhat iridescence that you can see in hand.

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