Got my letter toner slabbed!

@Cascade OK.. Thanks. I would think it would get a Details Grade. But I would be wrong.

 

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And that's why I slabbed it. To remove doubt for those who think similarly if I ever decide to sell it

 

That is like silver silly putty, I like it!

 

You just named him Dave!

 

Cascade, can you tell us any back story on this coin? It's so cool. Was this something you put in a Whitman long ago, or did you purchase it?

 

Came into a buddies shop still in the album from an old collection by the heirs of a passed collector. Only a few coins were in the album and this one was the only one that had letter transfer.

 

Awesome!! Well, I hope you get moon money for it bud.

 

I am thinking the carbon of the print blocked the gas from the acidic paper it was printed on since the inverse lettering is lighter than the tone of the rest. India ink should be a good masking agent. One could produce a portrait on the coin surface by ......nah maybe someday, but imagine putting your face on a large silver coin for your special person or your belt buckle.

 

Wow!

Doug was tempted!

Be still my heart

 

Can Silly Putty do that? If not, that is extremely neat.

 

Do you know what the source of the writing was?

 

A Whitman folder album that has an attached paper info sheet that sits between the 2nd & 3rd of 3 coin-hole pages when closed.

 

THAT is cool.

 

Cool!

 

Nice! I have 5 uncirculated 1950s Lincolns that came from a Whitman album that have this kind of toning. I've probably posted them here before. I showed them to Dennis King (major toned coin dealer) at the ANA show, and he thought they were pretty awesome. He said that once in a while he sees something like this, but that uncirculated coins like this are not common, given how they had to develop over time. We agreed they were hard to value, but he put them in the $100-150 range each. The OP half isn't as vividly toned, but it shows an uncirculated coin put away a long time ago and left alone.

 

Yeah, I'm estimating the value of mine in $300 +/- range which seems to jive with Dennis's assessment on the Lincoln's given the larger surface and more lettering on mine.

 

So... who wears it better guys?!

 

They are brutal. Very nice Franklin.