purple and blue toned NEW quarters! ???

can anyone tell me what these are? they are still BU minus the different colors and I got them out of a bank roll that was "brand new without any flaws to it" I've never seen this before from a brand new roll or really seen it from old rolls myself...

 

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These are toned coins and not error coins. Toning is tarnish forming on the surface of the metal due to exposure to environmental agents.
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maybe the wash that US Mint used? but nice find a Keeper!

 

That is something rather different if they have come direct from a mint roll :high5: cant say I have ever seen that before

 

I believe that he said a bank roll.
So, it could have been someone with a metal detector.

I have found strangely toned coins like these (altho not as dark) at the beach.
perhaps the salt air + sand can do it?

 

Could it be from heat applied to them?

 

That is what I was thinking....

Many moons ago i was playing in the fireplace with different regular coinage and my quarters and dimes were turning violet shades similar to those.....

Somewhere in CT is a pic of that dime in fact.....

Not sure where the coins would have gotten that much heat while in a roll and the whole roll adn paper not be affected....

 

Smurfs, gotta be smurfs......

 

Damn Belgians anyways

 

Someone put these on there stovetop for a short time

 

I was thinking heat too.

I recently heated up a clad dime and it turned blue

 

but that's something I didn't do unless the ppl that wrap bank rolls have a stove not far away before they rolled the coins

 

I think they may have sat in the back of an old Rambler on a hot day.

 

they look nice heated or not imo

 

Since these are Denver minted Puerto Rico Quarters and probably uncirculated, it is very doubtful that they would not have toned to such an extent without some help. If I had to guess what caused the quick toning, I would say that a truck that shipped the coins from the Mint to the Coin Rolling Service Company or somewhere in between before reaching the Bank, probably broke down in the very hot sun and was there for half the day.


Frank

 

Now that is some real thinking there. I will have to get a hold of you when I come home late some night and need a good alibi

 

Jessash,

No way man! I just went through a divorce and I am not getting caught up in yours, if it was to cause it!:whistle:


Frank

 

Interesting, except my friends and parents have left change in the car (here in Phoenix) for days in the sun... and they don't turn colors.
(then again, they weren't wrapped in paper)

The clad dime I turned blue was in temperatures of 425º

 

I still think it's papa smurf....

 

Magman,

I was at a local Coin Club Coin Show last weekend and a Dealer there had a roll of the Silver Rounds that look like Morgan Silvers Dollars with the most beautifully toned end coins that you have ever seen! I didn't have much money and tried every way possible to trade a roll of BU "High Grade" Washington Quarters or some of the 10 Morgan Silver Dollars that I have which are all VAM's. He only wanted $320 for the roll but I could not get him to work out a deal in no way. He said that the roll was the last of 12 rolls of the same Silver Rounds that he purchased from a Florida Estate and the rolls and many other coins had been stored in the attic of the house for nearly 30 years. You should have seen the end coins and I know that Jack and several others here on C.T. would have drooled a large pool if they had seen them. They were every color of purple, blue and magentas that could be imagined. I should have found someone to purchase some of my' coins at a loss because those two end Silver Rounds alone would have probably fetched the whole $320 cost or more on eBay.


Frank