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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4848661, member: 112"]Yeah it's unusual but it does happen. It's typically caused by storage methods, like something being placed on top a coin, either accidentally or negligently as it sits there in storage.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a way it's kind of like tab toning patterns caused by the old tab holders -</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170777[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You know this already, others don't. If ya stored a coin in those what ya ended with was a toning pattern on the coin that look just like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>So imagine if you will, a piece of corrugated cardboard, that by whatever reason/method, came into contact with the surface of a coin and just sat there for years. What you'd end up with would be stripes of severe/terminal toning. (At one time coins were shipped in pieces of corrugated cardboard with adhesive on the inside. Fold it together and the 2 halves stuck to each other.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And if that coin was then dipped, you'd have something kinda like what the coin that started this has.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it coulda been anything, not just corrugated cardboard, that sat on the coin. But whatever it was it had a shape and characteristic something like corrugated cardboard does.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4848661, member: 112"]Yeah it's unusual but it does happen. It's typically caused by storage methods, like something being placed on top a coin, either accidentally or negligently as it sits there in storage. In a way it's kind of like tab toning patterns caused by the old tab holders - [ATTACH=full]1170777[/ATTACH] You know this already, others don't. If ya stored a coin in those what ya ended with was a toning pattern on the coin that look just like that. So imagine if you will, a piece of corrugated cardboard, that by whatever reason/method, came into contact with the surface of a coin and just sat there for years. What you'd end up with would be stripes of severe/terminal toning. (At one time coins were shipped in pieces of corrugated cardboard with adhesive on the inside. Fold it together and the 2 halves stuck to each other.) And if that coin was then dipped, you'd have something kinda like what the coin that started this has. And it coulda been anything, not just corrugated cardboard, that sat on the coin. But whatever it was it had a shape and characteristic something like corrugated cardboard does.[/QUOTE]
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