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Recently, I've missed out on some nicely toned 83-O's in this grade. I finally won one. It's my first blue toner. Can't wait to see it in hand.

 

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Beauty!! Love the color

 

Nice coin, MaineB.

 

Not new buy just had it graded. I was hoping PR 69DC
but Pcgs graded a PR 68DC why? I cannot see why can you??

 

Wow, Chief! This one is turning out to be rarer than I thought I just re-read the Red Book description for 20 cent piece and it talks about a lot of minted ordered meltings. Glad to finally own one!

 

Holy mackerel!!!
She's a knock-out! Way-to-go @Mainebill

 

I'm seriously in love with this one!! I love proof trades and I love toned coins and love that edge in 2 sided album toning. I can't wait to see it In person!!

 

I tried designing a single digital coin board for my Proof Presidential Dollars. All coin images are resized PCGS TrueView photos. This series is slated to end in 2016, since no living President can be put on a coin and Jimmy Carter is still alive, the final coin is currently scheduled to be Gerald Ford.

 

I found this in a badly scratched PCI MS-66 holder on the Bay. Everyone must have been afraid to bid because of the high quality grading company lol. I freed it from the plastic tomb and am quite happy, it's no MS-66 obviously, but I had it at an Ef-40 price

 

I have gave freedom to a few graded by them. Most have regraded one point lower at Pcgs and a few at Ngc didn't change grade . At one time they were the best service for error .

 

Picked up some new Mercury dimes today:









I also got this nice 1883 nickel with a filled die on the date:


And my first decent Flying Eagle:


To me, this is my most interesting buy today. It's a 1969-D cent thin planchet error:

 

IMO the last one looks a little more like an acid-soaked cent.

 

1969-D Has been cleaned or polished . But sure would have liked to see it in gem Bu .

 

I hope that's not the case. I even asked the guy at the coin show I bought it from and he said it was not cleaned and was a real mint error.

 

My first Large cent.

 

I like it, but it's actually a 2 center.

 

gorgeous 2 center for sure. bling bling we have a winner.

 

how did these dollar proof get toned like this ? very strange.

 

No idea how or why this happens, but I think it's cool looking when it does. I always keep my eye out for interesting looking toners. PCGS has graded many of the ones I've found as problem free (or at least market acceptable). Most I have cracked out myself in apparently unopened OGP Proof Sets. I do submit all of them to PCGS using the Secure Plus Service so they could be sniffed for illegal chemicals, which is the best I can do as a novice collector to weed out treated coins. Remember these dollar coins are mostly copper, which I think is the most reactive metal used in coins. I haven't found any toners in this series past the 2010 issue, so it appears to take at least 4 years to develop any color (although if you look closely at my set above, you will see the 2011 and 2012 issue is mellowing pretty nicely to a golden yellow -- the 2013 and 2014 issue is mostly white (all those photos were taken this year).

 

This is a great close up of the DCAM Zachary Taylor shot by Phil Arnold at PCGS. I agree that the toning color is unusual, but in my humble opinion it's stunning. I live for stuff that looks like this, but that's just my weird taste! I like the way the blue color worked up on the rim and the hints of some elevation chromatics on his face and hair, which is difficult to engineer on demand. I think it's the most beautiful (striking) Presidential Dollar that I've ever come across or seen digitally. By the way, note the cool way that Phil shot this coin, where you can see the edge lettering from 12 to 3 o'clock on the coins edge.