Coins that survived a fire, beautifully toned.

These halves were in a fire, and in my grandfathers collection. I think they have such a story tied to the toning, you can even see where a quarter was sitting on the Ike dollar!

Technically is this artificial toning since it was done by fire? haha

Let me know what you think, and post some coins you have that share an interesting tale and show it!

 

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Nice looking but you can tell they didn't tone naturally.

 

This is my coin that survived a fire also.

 

Nice Pics !

 

...and this is why we don't have plastic coins.

 

I've seen some metal coins that have melted in a fire. Plastic ones would be a lump of plastic.

 

Isn’t a fire technically natural lol

 

Back when the Old San Francisco mint was a museum dedicated to money they had a small pile of silver coins that had been fused together during the fire after the SF earthquake in 1906.

 

Here are some slabbed coins that came through a fire (with some protection)

 

A fire, technically yes but toned coins from a fire, afraid not. Otherwise we would start burning our coins to make them tone.

 

Did so say Halves somewhere?

 

I'll say, buried at Pompei gets the win!

 

Haha that's the OP, not me. I'm too young to be losing it. Lol

 

Only if it was started by lightning ⚡!

 

Liberty Nickel
(I have posted this previously on a different forum.)


Before dawn on June 25th, 1918 the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train (on its way to Hammond, Indiana from Michigan,) carrying about 400 circus employees stopped in Ivanhoe, Indiana. While stopped, it was rear-ended by a speeding, empty troop train, whose driver had fallen asleep.

The circus train cars were made of wood and used kerosene for lighting. Most of the entertainers and workers were asleep in the rear cars. The damage wreaked by the collision was intensified by the fire it ignited, which blazed through the wooden cars, killing 86 people and injuring 127.

Five cents was the general admission cost for the circus and often the workers were paid in nickels.

A day or two after the wreck my grandfather and father (6 years old) walked from their house to the site. My dad found this badly burned Liberty Nickel.

 

Looks like a 1913!