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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cplradar, post: 7871185, member: 108985&quot;]<a href="https://coinweek.com/us-coins/reader-writes-harvey-stack-hobbys-relationship-toning/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/us-coins/reader-writes-harvey-stack-hobbys-relationship-toning/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/us-coins/reader-writes-harvey-stack-hobbys-relationship-toning/</a></p><p><u><i><br /></i></u></p><p><u><i>Especially with <b>Indian Head</b> and early <b>Lincoln cents</b>, they usually darkened but looked still pretty good. One dealer especially, from the New England area, used to buy these lots, one after another. At first we thought that he had a wholesale business and either gathered them or sorted them for sale in quantity.</i></u></p><p><u><i><br /></i></u></p><p><u><i>&nbsp;</i></u></p><p><u><i>No, that’s not what happened.</i></u></p><p><u><i><br /></i></u></p><p><u><i>&nbsp;</i></u></p><p><u><i>He would take them home, bleach or strip them in some way, then he would put them in a frying pan and heat them slowly, watching as they turned from pinkish to a somewhat red or light tan (others would become too badly spotted so I guess he removed them), and then within two or three weeks he would place large ads in Coin World or Numismatic News, offering a range of dates, claiming they were Full Red, Part Red, Red/Brown (etc.), and did a land office business <b>until he was sued and had to close shop for mis-representation</b>. So the coloring you talk about was in many cases artificially done. UGH!!!</i></u></p><p><u><i></i></u>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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