Playing around with a torch can be dangerous for your coins. Nevertheless, many coins are heated during attempts to repair some damage. Usually, round, smooth, lumps on a coin's surface indicate a casting; however, heat can make a genuine coin like this silver dollar look suspicious. In the first image, you'll see many raised lumps around the letter "S." The second image with the lumps pressed out shows that they were not solid as they would be if this were a cast. Image of both sides or the whole coin will not be posted as you don't need them to understand this post.
You need to adjust your white balance. How do I know that this isn't just the icing on a cake that you have melted down? I'll bet I can order one from Publix just like this. No wonder you don't want to post a complete image of the "coin". Chris
Interesting post, as always, @Insider, however, I agree you need to adjust your white balance. Look on your photo program, it's there somewhere.
Those could have been artifacts of a rusty die, or occluded gas bubbles. Either way, you probably shouldve asked a professional before torching the poor girl. Could have been worth $$$$
heavycam.monstervam, posted: "Those could have been artifacts of a rusty die,..." Absolutely not! Rusty dies do not leave round, smooth raised blobs on coins. They are rough, granular, an do not press out with a thumb nail. "...or occluded gas bubbles." That is exactly what they are; and in this case, they were caused by torching the coin when its field was repaired. "Either way, you..." Not my coin. Rather than having fun posting the image and asking if the coin was counterfeit or what happened to the coin? - I've played nice so as not to "trick" any sensitive members. I posted it for what it is. "...probably shouldve asked a professional before torching the poor girl. Could have been worth $$$$" You got that right! It is a genuine, XF 1893-S $1. Or should I say was? Someone asked if I would take a look at it.
@Insider 's having one of those conversations with himself again. Be patient, the meds are on the way.
Somebody needs to teach him how to use the Quote function. I tried once, to no avail. Guess I'll try again It works like this. Select the text you wish to quote and highlight it by placing your cursor at your selected point and dragging it across the text you want to quote, like this - The just simply click on that little quote button there and the software will quote the text for you. And if you want to quote multiple pieces of text, you do the same thing with each piece of text, one at a time. Once you have all the pieces of text you want to quote, quoted; all you have to do is place your cursor into the text body box like this - And click on that little Insert Quotes button. And that does this for you. Like this. Or this. Or this. Then you can respond to each individual quote, one at time, if you wish. Or respond to all of them at the same. Merely by placing your cursor in the blank spaces in between each quote and typing. And when you click on Post Reply, it ends up looking like what you see here. And that's a lot easier than changing text colors throughout your post. AND it makes it a lot easier for other people to read and make sense of what you are talking about.
Writing "between the lines" in colors keeps my feeble mind on track of the subject and accents how I feel. Red is for the most important reply. Purple comes next while blue is calm. Who sent you a picture? That was a different time. Happy 4/20 to all!
This is one of the things I'll tell people to poke with a stick when they think they have something special. If it gives, it's a bubble. Could be due to heat having been applied to the coin, could be a planchet defect that hasn't peeled into a lamination yet. Hard to tell which, although heat will often leave additional scars.
As I posted when I showed the coin...HEAT! Planchet defects very rarely look like smooth round bubbles. I was tempted to say NEVER but sooner or later...
