If you look you can see that same black color in various places all over the coin, both obv and rev. This tells me that coin was toned black at...
Clashed dies couldn't do that. It is after all the very tops of the shield lines that are being flattened. And on a die the tops of the shield...
Now Douglas <----- :stop: You told yourself you weren't gonna do it :muted:
Could they have an effect ? Yes. Could they have THAT effect ? No.
I think he is missing the extraordinarily large and pink elephant that is standing right in front of him in the room. :rolleyes: I'm done here.
Just because one does not understand how such wear could occur, does not mean that such wear does indeed occur. You apparently don't realize it...
And that's supposed to mean what exactly ? Hopefully you are not trying to tell us that coins only achieve those colors when they are subjected to...
Well that's because people rarely "want" to hear my opinion on the grade of coins. AU58. 'Course if I saw it in hand I might have to go a touch...
Here's the thing. Prior to 2000 when the mint announced that the planchet wash solution they were using was possibly, stress possibly, the reason...
See, proves my point ;)
I think a lot of folks have hit all around the answer that he wants, but nobody's hit it dead center yet. The part that everybody is leaving out -...
The only thing I noticed is that you said something about it having something to do with the cleaning solution used on the planchets for the these...
I'd readily agree with that. Which of course is why I've been trying for many years now to teach people how to properly clean coins. Because when...
Uhhhhhh - yeah, OK. But only when used in the correct order :smuggrin:
Ehhhhh - doesn't really matter since they're wrong most of the time anyway :D
Yeah, I already understood that you don't think they are due to toning. So the thing you are trying to get is what you think did cause them -...
So OK, tell us what you think is causing these spots on your coins ? That is the thing you are trying to get to isn't it ?
The question is - what's the first thing you notice on this AU coin ? The very first thing I noticed - is that you are taking pictures of coins...
As a general rule, stress general, coins do not really lose any weight to speak of due to wear - or put another way, not enough to take them out...
What the folks are trying to tell you is that it is completely, 100%, normal for cent coins to look like that. What you are seeing, the colors, is...
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