Don't think so. More than likely due to an old style of coin album/folder that had small tabs at the top and bottom to keep the coin in the hole.
I haven't seen one in more years than I can remember, but they used to have them for all of the coins. The ones for the dimes were a booger to get the coin in.
Nice pickup. I'll admit ignorance on the tabbed holders, so I like the roll theory. Can't figure out why someone would have 2 1957-P quarters in a folder anyway. Well, maybe one face up and one face down, but still.
Yea i was thinking maybe the roll was coming apart and someone put a rubberband across it to keep the paper from opening up ....but who knows
Maybe they kept falling out of the folder, so somebody Scotch taped them in. I dunno. It's weird that the obverse and reverse are identical, perfectly level with the coin.
doubt it, heat would affect the whole coin, the non toned side is all original luster which means it was not heated up and dipped out, and you usually do not get reds and greens from heat, usually blue and purple.
It was just a thought. What about direct heat to just one side for a short period of time? It just seems weird that they would be the same pattern on the same date/mm coin. Unless someone was playing around. It also fits that it would be on a more common date coin rather then a more expensive one to try their techniques out. I could be wrong and it could be like GDJMSP said and a tab album... Who knows.
no i understand, wasnt getting snappy at you . I just thought it was strange they both match, and both received the same grade of MS66
And, as picky as the TPGs are being about toning now a days, if it was AT, they wouldn't have been slabbed. And all coins on Teletrade are slabbed.
I very much like both of these NT quarters, and agree with Doug's tabbed folder assessment. Very nice!
These WQs look quite similar in many ways to the hoard of 1945-S Mercs that turned up in the 1990s and that were certified by NGC. Many of those coins are still in the old NGC fatty holders and quite a few obtained very high grades of MS68 or thereabouts. The colors are quite different than those Mercs, but the patter is similar if rotated 90 degrees. If I recall correctly, the Mercs were stored in a bank folder designed to hold something like $3.00 in dimes and the untoned areas in the center would be where the cardboard crossed the coin. This is analogous to how the classic commems were issued at times. I have some mated-pairs of toned coins, too, and it is quite cool to find such pieces.
No, not somtimes. They do it all the time. What you have to always remember is that nobody, and I mean nobody, not the TPG graders, not the most advanced collector or specialist there is, no scientist - nobody, can tell for sure if a coin is AT or NT. And if you can't tell then that is market acceptable.
