A Colorful Half Dollar

It's an 1824 Bust Half Dollar, O-109 with a rarity of 2. Both sides contain colorful toning with rainbow like colors.

 

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1824/4 recut over 4 variety

 

I'm definitely no authority on toning, but the layout of those colors sure looks strange to me.

 

If only it had been in MS/AU condition; beautiful color.

 

It's been cleaned and polished, and retoned (possibly with assistance). The marks in the obverse left field also look like whizzing.

 

I have to agree, the neon colors make the coin look NT (as in nuclear toning ;-)

 

You can see marks around the rim on the reverse that makes me think it was mounted on a type of coin bezel or piece of jewelry like a lapel pin or even maybe a money clip.

See the 3 marks? Evenly spaced out? Like notches.


The color could be a lamination residue like varnish to shine it up.

 

If it was a jewelry piece and that seems logical with the evidence Paddy presented, then this coin likely was cleaned many times with all different kinds of chemicals. That could be a factor in the toning.

 

Yes it is. Thank you for mentioning that as I forgot.