The market for toned coins has always existed. But there have certainly been times when colorfully toned coins have been more popular, meaning...
It just depends on the look you want. Sometimes with gold black looks better, at least IMO. But black and silver or copper coins just doesn't work...
Acetone, MS70, even distilled water - they are all cleaning. But none of them will remove metal from the coin like a commercial coin dip does....
In this case I would say no, what you call the toned example would never grade as high as the untoned example. But that's because based on the...
NGC and PCGS are both pretty good with cameo and deep cameo designations, so if you buy a slabbed coin you can almost always trust them in that...
Those are not black beauties though - this is a black beauty.
I'm no expert either, but both the 3 & 4 are either doubled or it's an RPD.
How do figure they are error coins ? There is no error involved, they are just coins that happen to tone that way.
Yes the TPGs often apply it to circulated coins as well - eye appeal is eye appeal regardless of the coin.
Look just a tad closer ;)
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No, I assumed we talking about coins struck for circulation.
The presses the mint uses are even faster. Even the edge marking machine they use for the dollar coins run 1000 coins a minute.
Kinda surprised that no one has mentioned a particular point about this coin. You guys need to look a little closer ;)
1998, there were no dollar coins.
And with a coin press that spits out 1000 coins in one minute - what can he make then ?
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