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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mainebill, post: 3005341, member: 44004&quot;]I have noticed a lot of darker toned earlier circulated&nbsp; coins ie bust and early seated that come out of New England. And I mean from old estates not collections you get a lot of the almost black circulated cameo ones a lot of times and I always attributed it to the massive amount of wood and coal smoke in the winters the last 209 years and all the sulfur compounds in it just like antique weathervanes from eastern&nbsp; Massachusetts and any of the mill towns in Maine and New Hampshire will have a very heavy dark green copper verdigris patina compared to ones from more rural New England and upstate New York (I deal in antiques and specialize in Americana and folk art) and have had dozens of early weathervanes and have examined hundreds if not thousands[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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