Hi everyone!! I've been reading your forums for awhile now and thought it's about time I seek the knowledge from all of you instead of learning on my own... So this is my first post! Does anyone have an idea of why a Kennedy half dollar would have a peachish looking discoloration is it common for silver to get that hue??
As a roll searcher I have found many many with toning, Not sure on yours without a pic? How about a year?
I wish my macro lense would pick up what I see better, it has the carbon flecks on the lower right obverse side and peach discoloration inbetween the 9&6. My grandma handed down a nice sized coin collection and I've been studying ever since and this one she wrote on and scribbled out things about like she wasn't sure on the errors and has 900 on it and I'm confused about that I wish I would of gained more of her knowledge before she passed it's hard digging through the wide variety of knowledge on the internet.
The 900 is referring to the coin being 90% silver. This tone can happen anywhere on the coin. Silver is very susceptible to toning.
Welcome aboard!!! I hope you have a GREAT time here on the boards. That looks like pretty standard toning to me. Silver is a reactive metal, so it is relatively common for a silver coin to tone up. Sometimes the toning is spectacular and can add significantly to the value of the coin. Sometimes the toning is ugly and can lower the value of the coin. In your case the toning is pretty nondescript, so it shouldn't really affect the value of the coin one way or another.
It's not an SMS coin which always has a little flag hanging of the end of the crossbar on the "4". Additionally, the SMS coins are covered in die polishing lines.
