Toned $20 St Gaudens

Just picked this one up. You don't see many toned St Gaudens.. I couldn't pass it up!

 

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Nice! Definitely not something you see every day.

 

Ah, you must be doing well, good on you! Great pick up!

 

Nice !!

 

Congratulations on a beautiful find!

 

Beautiful! Great find.

 

Very nice pickup...I would have done the same thing.

That's a color I have't seen before. Kind of purple-ish?
Nice holder also.

 

It's pretty rare on gold, but I have several in my collection with the same color.

 

I've got a 1925 with a hideous red splotch of some sort on it; still graded straight MS-61 in an old NGC holder, so I guess they counted it as toning. Still, ughhh!

 

Why is toned gold so rare? Gold itself is less susceptible to toning than other metals...?

 

@BigTee44 has a matching $10 Saint Gaudens toner to sell you.

 

Believe me, I know! I've already bid more for that than I paid for this $20 coin, lol.

 

Yeah. I have a fair amount of $2 1/2 toners, but it seems to be even rarer on the bigger coins.

 

Nice

 

Where did you get this one ?

 

Roger Burdette's new Saints book not only has year-by-year analysis on different appearances and colors, but also a very extensive analysis of the different kinds of spottings that you see on the Saints...what causes them...etc.

 

Ebay

 

Gold is one of the least chemically reactive metals. Even when "gold" coins do tone, it is the silver and copper in the alloy (in the surface layers) which are toning. The gold itself is still not reacting.

Because of this, toned gold is quite rare.

 

I really like that one!!!