An interesting toning pattern that just turned up on eBay

Hey, maybe it was stored in a hard vacuum where the mean free path of the sulfide ions was greater than the distance from the paper to the coin surface. What could be more natural than a hard vacuum? Statistically, your chances of encountering anything else anywhere in the universe are effectively zero...

 

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Now that right there is a true entrepreneur! You saw something unique that folks were talking about and instead of just looking at it, you actually put your money where your mouth is and figured a way of making the situation work for you. I sincerely hope it does pay off and if it flunks, hey, you still get to own something weird for a nominal fee

 

It's 16 bucks and 20 for grading. Who cares! It'll be fun to see what happens and get better pics.

 

Well, I'll never know if they will grade the toning as legit, because I got it this weekend, and it's been cleaned. In my opinion, looking at it in-hand, whatever method was used to harshly/improperly clean the coin caused the surfaces to take on the strange letter transfer. Oh well, just a $16 risk. I'm going to auction it off starting at 99 cents. Here's my pic.