My dad got a quarter in change last week but we can't remember what it's called when it looks like this. It has the orangish tone to both sides. Check out the pictures, it was the best I could do at the time.Thanks!
I think you are asking about a copper washed or sintered planchet - but that looks like plain old toning to me.
GD, yes, thats what I was talking about. Sorry about the poor pictures since he put it in a holder. But you can tell its not toning since it looks like what I'll call really small lines down through the orangish colors. I'll see if I can get some pictures out of the holder. Thanks again.
Pictures look pretty good actually....only need a little more lighting. Can't quite tell what you have though. If toned, it'll grab the attention of some tone collectors. Personally, I'm leaning towards copperwashed. Question though, if you examine the coin closely, can you see any silver color on it at all? I would avoid handling it directly, and certainly DO NOT scratch it too find out. Just curious.
law, I do not have the coin in hand, my dad has it. Like I said I will get some more pictures of it out of the holder, I will make sure he wears gloves. Maybe I can get them Thursday.
I have quite a few Statehood quarters that are toned. Some are almost a gold tone, some are lighter, and some are partially toned. I've been trying to put together a toned set, just for the fun of it. Does anyone know why a higher percentage of the Statehood quarters seem to be toned than other coins?
I don't know that that is an accurate statement. It might be true where you live, but it's certainly not true everywhere. Toning depends on the environment where the coins are. Say there was a paper mill or a steel mill nearby - they put stuff into the air and that makes coins tone. But of you lived out in the middle of the Utah desert where's there's pretty much nothing - then the coins won't tone as much or as fast. And it would happen to all of them - not just some.
The reason I asked is that previous Jefferson(wrong, Washington) quarters I have handled did not seem to have the same percentage of toned coins (none I remember) as the Statehood quarters(quite a few). The environment is the same, and the coins are the same composition, so something must be different.
As a related post this looks like the one I posted yesterday also . http://www.cointalk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12524 Do you think it may be possible to somehow put together a whole collection of these. Im wondering what the population may be.
Something is different - the metal in the coins. Nickels are not clad coins so they tone differently than quarters.
Same issue - the quarters are silver, the nickels are not. So they tone differently even if exposed to same environment & storage methods.
I am talking about clad quarters, not silver. I cannot remember seeing a toned clad quarter, prior to the Statehood quarters being issued in 1999. But I have found many toned UNC Statehood quarters. They are the same composition, aren't they?
Yes, they are. But any clad coin is different than a nickel. Nickels are made of an alloy, they are the same metal all the way through the coin. A clad coin is a layer of cu over an inner layer of pure copper. The only point I am making is that different metals and different coins do not tone the same even under the same conditions. There is nothing special about the state quarters that makes them tone. Any clad quarter would tone just like a state quarter under the same conditions. So would clad dimes, halves and dollars.
"There is nothing special about the state quarters that makes them tone. Any clad quarter would tone just like a state quarter under the same conditions." I understand that. It just seems that I see a lot of toned Statehood quarters, but few to none of the 1965-1998 quarters, and wondered if anyone else had a similar experience. Also, the orange-gold color of the toning is unlike any I have seen on a few other toned clad coins. It just makes me curious.