Natural toning doesn't get any better than this.

That is a beautiful medal. Thanks for posting it! Please keep us updated on any info you find out about it.

 

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Simply superb. Well done Gbroke.

 

Wow wow wow! Fantastic medal gbroke. Love how the firey red toning makes the people makes the soldiers around the main figure appear to be on fire. Awesome!

 

Nope! We don't rate a separate section. You have to put them wherever you can. I use the Chat forum. It would be nice if we had a "US & World Tokens and Medals" forum. Maybe some of the newcomers who want to know about their token or medal would stop calling them coins.

Chris

 

Wow! That is gorgeous!

 

I've never seen an item get so many likes in a period of 16 hours.

Which makes me wonder.... What are your plans for this medal?

 

Greg, you found a coin that Doug actually likes. That's gotta be worth, like, a million dollars on eBay.

 

lol John, it only took me 6000+ posts, but I knew I would get him!

Well, the plan is this needs to go to Brandon.

When I saw it, it went down like this:
"Oh man that is an awesome toned medal, with a beautiful horse. Brandon (brg) would love this thing!
I better buy it before he sees it!"

I realize it needs to go to him, so that's where it is going to go.

 

Wow, that is a beautiful piece. Some of the best toning I have ever seen.

 

Thanks camaro. I am glad to see so many others see the real beauty in the toning. I really don't know how it could get any better.

 

It really is a stunning piece. Great eye.

 

Those are excellent photos, as well. Good job all around, gbroke.

 

I certainly agree that the medal is great looking and well worth a place in any collection. I can not accept it as 'natural' toning not because I have some great knowledge of the subject but simply because I can not believe that blue sky, gold horse and red fire all placed themselves so perfectly. In general, I dislike the blotchy gaudy tones on coins whether natural or assisted. Is there some 'natural' explanation for how this medal was able to color and stay so precisely within the lines?

 

The colors appear to shift as a function of lighting and angle in the photos. It is a very pretty coin.:thumb:

I was tempted to post a colorized quarter where the colors are all kept precisely within the lines. :devil:

 

Hi Doug, there certainly is an explanation.
I'll do my best to portray it properly.

It's not that the colors stayed within "lines", but rather they are progressing beautifully on the elevations/devices. As toning progresses, they start to move up the the devices and affect them accordingly. For example, the main horse/figure are the highest elevation, so the first colors they will turn is gold/yellow. The highest elevations will be the last to tone. This is also why you will see the texture on the horse has not toned as much as the skin around it yet.

The toning (on the obverse) appears to have started and been most aggressive on the lower half of this coin. It follows the color chart progression exactly as it should in regard to naturally toning.
That being: yellow/orange/red/magenta/blue/green/darker...
Our eyes are seeing near perfectly painted colors between the lines, but its actually the elevation changes that are causing it. I'm certain the blue sky started off as yellow/gold when the toning began.

Left in it's original environment, this medal would not look the same after xx amount of years. Every color you see would continue to progress through the chart and would eventually not match up with the design so perfect.
It happens that it's the right time in it's life, and toning color cycle, that it worked out to be this way.

I hope this makes a little sense.

 

Its a function of it being a proof. That is the danger of these coins. I would tell others to only ever buy a toned proof if you can see it in hand first. This was taught to me by other CTers, but I have found it to be very true. Some spectacularly photographed proof coins can look "blah" in hand.

 

Pure awesomeness.

 

You know I think this coin is both awesome and beautiful, but I was under the impression that Rainbow toning was not a natural process and that it is a result of the coin coming in contact with petroleum based products. The rainbow is commonly referred to in our business as a "peacock".