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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2428248, member: 1892"]Idle question regarding the Dollar: Do you consider it reasonable to assume the coin spent a fair amount of time in contact with human skin (being holed), and if so do you feel it had any special effect on how the toning propagated?</p><p><br /></p><p>If I'm reading your images correctly, the areas of "black" on the coin are less-extensive on the reverse than the obverse which is mostly covered, correct? I've always held that Seated-era coinage toned while still circulating, and am less worried about seeing dark areas adjacent to "clean" (untoned) areas on circulating examples for that reason, as long as the color is in the appropriate protected areas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2428248, member: 1892"]Idle question regarding the Dollar: Do you consider it reasonable to assume the coin spent a fair amount of time in contact with human skin (being holed), and if so do you feel it had any special effect on how the toning propagated? If I'm reading your images correctly, the areas of "black" on the coin are less-extensive on the reverse than the obverse which is mostly covered, correct? I've always held that Seated-era coinage toned while still circulating, and am less worried about seeing dark areas adjacent to "clean" (untoned) areas on circulating examples for that reason, as long as the color is in the appropriate protected areas.[/QUOTE]
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