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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2800298, member: 112&quot;]Boy ! A lot of territory has been covered since I asked that simple question - what do you guys think of this one ? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]652643[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, there&#039;s one thing to say about that and somebody already said it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You nailed it there Skyman. That is indeed a Frankie still in its original Mint Set cardboard. And yeah I owned it and yeah I took the picture. And no I did not manipulate or alter the picture in any way. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I did do was to tilt the lights just right to capture that color. Pictures taken with the lights at slightly different angles yielded different results - just like all pictures do. If ya looked at that coin in hand, under a light, and tilted it just so - you&#039;d see exactly what you see in that picture. If you tilted it another way the color was no where near that vibrant - but it was still there. </p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, that coin is, was, 100% completely natural toning. I bought that set over 20 years ago and I first posted that same picture right here on this forum not long after the forum was created, and several times since then. And while the red color is unusual, as you can see from Skyman&#039;s pic it&#039;s certainly not unheard of, especially in original &#039;58 Mint Sets. The &#039;58 Mint Sets are very well known for having produced some the most spectacular natural toning that any of us have ever seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>And given the subject of this thread I thought that pic would fit right in. And I also thought it would produce results, responding posts, exactly like it did. </p><p><br /></p><p>Funny how that works aint it&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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