Trade Dollar Questionable Color

This was one I came across last night and struck me as odd that it was listed as questionable color. Figured it could be a good coin to learn a bit on since most of the time you hear questionable color and picture clown colored coins not necessarily ones like this.

Was the coin messed with to hide a cleaning in PCGS's opinion? If you owned would you crack and resubmit elsewhere? Would this be a coin you'd dip?

Other thoughts?

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

It's a coin I might dip, but not with a commercial dip. Too wicked. It needs a more subtle treatment.

 

That's my grandmother's birth year...nice! Looks good just like that.

 

Not my coin, was trying to make it mine they send me a counter offer last night and woke up and it was sold.

 

That the way it works sometimes. Hate you missed out. Nice coin.

 

The toning makes it look like the coin was cleaned long ago and is retoning itself. Nice looking. I'd probably leave as is and wait to see what happens years from now. You can always crack it out later as easy as you can crack it now.

 

Bummer.

 

Probably just one of the many coins that got nuked for no reason recently. The color looks pretty fine on the picture though it may turn out better with Kurt’s magic dip. It may look different in hand but with how the grading has been lately it seems like they hired Doug as a finalizer.

 

With that coin, I'd take my stock Kodak formula and probably dilute it further, just to prevent it from going blast white.

 

That’s be interesting to see how it’d come out

 

Amen to that. That yellow gold toning is often what happens after an old dip starts retoning and gradually gets darker over time. I’m sure it would be well worth cracking out and trying again but pcgs has been ridiculous about anything with any toning lately. Bummer you missed it as it’s a nice coin

 

Oh wow, maybe "balance is being restored to The Farce" after all, if the top 2 TPGS firms are starting to question toning as they always should have. There was "another". Hmm.

 

Yeah I don't normally come across details coins that I instantly want like this one. It was a DLRC coin and they always will accept offers it just takes them a few hours to respond normally. This time they unfortunately responded with a counter while I was sleeping and when I tried to accept in the AM the coin disappeared. Almost a nice bargain bin pickup.

 

No doubt. What it sell for. I’m sure a crackout dealer bought it to. Try and straight grade which I think it will though it may take a couple try’s

 

Not sure exactly what it sold for. They countered it to me at $700 which I was going to accept. Guessing it sold for somewhere around that number.

 

Unc details questionable color?

 

Yeah UNC

 

I’d call it about a 62. So about $950-1100 in a straight grade

 

Probably just needs to be held for a bit and let them get that ultra conservative grading out of their system.

 

Well, it has clearly been dipped once. The reverse color and pattern is a strong indicator of an improperly rinsed dip.

I don't see anything that would keep this from being market acceptable from these pictures, but a lot could change in hand. Rotating it under the light might show something different. I've heard of doctors applying a light patina to cover up cleaning.