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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 503645, member: 112"]This coin is a good example of something I have said recently - that toning can and will flake off the coin. Just look closely at what appears to be the untoned portions of the reverse. You can still see patches of color there while the majority of it has flaked away.</p><p><br /></p><p>And those are definitely fingerprints - not bag/textile toning. Bag/textile toning does not occur on both sides of the coin - finegrprints often do however. (look by the right hand and behind the left arm) Nor is it end roll toning. End roll toning will typically have areas untoned or of a different color that are delineated by straight lines caused by the paper folds. This coin has toning that typical of envelope toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - This is also a somewhat unique case of a fingerprint actually helping a coin to grade higher than it should. Look at the lower central portion of the left wing - those are significant bag marks. But they are hidden in the fingerprint pattern making them hard to see. Were it not for the fingerprint, this coin would never get a 66.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 503645, member: 112"]This coin is a good example of something I have said recently - that toning can and will flake off the coin. Just look closely at what appears to be the untoned portions of the reverse. You can still see patches of color there while the majority of it has flaked away. And those are definitely fingerprints - not bag/textile toning. Bag/textile toning does not occur on both sides of the coin - finegrprints often do however. (look by the right hand and behind the left arm) Nor is it end roll toning. End roll toning will typically have areas untoned or of a different color that are delineated by straight lines caused by the paper folds. This coin has toning that typical of envelope toning. edit - This is also a somewhat unique case of a fingerprint actually helping a coin to grade higher than it should. Look at the lower central portion of the left wing - those are significant bag marks. But they are hidden in the fingerprint pattern making them hard to see. Were it not for the fingerprint, this coin would never get a 66.[/QUOTE]
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