http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=330067686479&rd=1&rd=1 The coin is white, almost as if somebody painted it white. I asked the ebay seller and this is his reply: The coin is really white. The medal is silver but that's the way the coin toned. The reverse toning is quite different from the obverse. Does a coin really tone white????
Its a bad picture for starters. I would say IMO, the coin was dip cleaeced at least once and has started to retone. But with that said, storage can effect color. The picture is really not helping tell the story of weather or not that is the case. No coin I know of tones white. I could be wrong.
taurus: I have a Barber quarter that is white like this, and (after showing it to a couple of dealers) the opinion was that it was not cleaned and was from what ever it was stored in. Interesting, and (possibly) worth the gamble.
I have seen a lot of coins that were just as white and some that may have been even whiter! The Other Frank has probably hit on the reason (what ever it was stored in) but I had always thought that the planchets were too high in Silver content (instead of being 90% Silver and 10% Copper, that they are probably closer to 95% or greater Silver and 5% or less Copper). The Other, Other Frank
I think it is just the photo---the coin looks fine to me as I've seen coins that are just as WHITE. Speedy
A reaction with silver in a high Chlorine environment can result in a white "toning". The coin becomes covered with a layer of silver chloride with is white in color. Zinc coins can turn white as they oxidize. Zinc oxide is bright white in color.
The coin looks like it has been dipped to death to me - and then the pics have been enhanced trying to make it look better.
Yep,dipped and then placed in a poor quality cardboard album which probably caused the ugly toning around the rims.
